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Drive for leanness, anorexia nervosa, and overactivity: the missing link.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Dec 2008

Arun C P

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Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric condition characterized by deliberate reduction of body weight. Some patients with AN exhibit overactivity that can worsen their state of malnutrition. Employing an evolutionary psychiatry line of inquiry, we propose that rigidity of thinking and overactivity are behavioral phenotypic changes in AN patients that are normal to tree-dwelling mammals, such as monkeys. Such...

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PMID: 19120152
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.055

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