Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 05:21 in Health & Medicine

Anorexic patients drastically reduce food intake and are often not capable of changing their behaviour. This can lead to life-threatening weight loss. Using MRI technology, scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital have discovered for the first time processes in brain metabolism that explain this disturbed eating behaviour...

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