Individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) engage in relentless restrictive eating and often
become severely emaciated. Because there are no proven treatments, AN has high rates of …

This focussed narrative review examines neurobiological and psychophysiological evidence
supporting a role for altered reward processes in the development and maintenance of …

The primary defining characteristic of a diagnosis of an eating disorder (ED) is the
“disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior that results in the altered consumption or …

We propose that a core eating network and its modulations account for much of what is
currently known about the neural activity underlying a wide range of eating phenomena in …

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a disorder characterized by restricted eating, fears of gaining
weight, and body image distortions. The etiology remains unknown; however impairments in …

Objective Recent studies suggest that altered function of higher-order appetitive neural
circuitry may contribute to restricted eating in anorexia nervosa and overeating in bulimia …

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are severe eating disorders whose etiopathogenesis
is still unknown. Clinical features suggest that eating disorders may develop as reward …

The insular cortex is a multimodal brain region with regional cytoarchitectonic differences
indicating various functional specializations. As a multisensory neural node, the insular …

Body image distortion is a key symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN). The majority of the
neuroimaging studies on body image distortion in AN conceptualized it as an …

Is starvation in anorexia nervosa (AN) or overeating in bulimia nervosa (BN) a form of
addiction? Alternatively, why are individuals with BN more vulnerable and individuals with …