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Higher reward value of starvation imagery in anorexia nervosa and association with the Val66Met BDNF polymorphism.
Translational psychiatry - 7 Jun 2016
Clarke J, Ramoz N, Fladung A-K, Gorwood P
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies support the idea that abnormalities of the reward system contribute to onset and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN). Next to cues coding for overweight, other research suggest cues triggering the proposed starvation dependence to be pivotally involved in the AN pathogenesis. We assessed the characteristics of the cognitive, emotional and physiologic response toward disease-specific pictures of...
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