Relationships between eating and affective disorders remain complex and unclear. Brain
glucose metabolism of anorectic patients has been demonstrated to be reduced both
globally and regionally, with a particular relative hypometabolism in the parietal cortex. To
explore the possible influence of weight loss or depressive symptomatology on brain
metabolism, we studied age-and sex-matched low-weight anorectic and depressed patients,
normal-weight depressed patients, and healthy volunteers. Absolute global and regional …