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Emotional eating in adolescents: a gene (SLC6A4/5-HTT) - depressive feelings interaction analysis.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Nov 2010
van Strien Tatjana, van der Zwaluw Carmen S, Engels Rutger C M E
Abstract excerpt
Eating in response to distress--i.e. emotional eating--is highly prevalent in (female) adults with binge eating, but has only a very low prevalence in young children. The present study addresses the emergence of emotional eating in adolescence in relation to depressive feelings. Because a reduction of food intake is considered the biologically natural response to distress, we tested whether the a-typical...
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