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Anorexia ‘Damages the Brain’ 

Even after they have stopped starving themselves, women with anorexia seem to have trouble enjoying their food and experiencing other pleasures.
That’s the thrust of two studies by the University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Walter Kaye and Dr. Angela Wagner of J.W. Goethe University in Germany.
The first study, published in March in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, showed that pleasure centers in the brains of women recovering from anorexia didn’t respond nearly as strongly to sips of sugar water as the brains of healthy women did.
The second study which appeared this month in the American Journal of Psychiatry, showed that 13 women recovering from anorexia had much different patterns of brain activation whole playing a betting game than 13 healthy women did.
A healthy person “has to have a balance between the here and now and future consequences,” said Kaye.  “Some people may be biased toward the here and now and never look at the future consequences, but anorexics tend to be biased toward worrying about consequences.”

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