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Eating in eating disorders
Author(s) -
Treasure Janet,
Cardi Valentina,
Kan Carol
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european eating disorders review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.511
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1099-0968
pISSN - 1072-4133
DOI - 10.1002/erv.1090
Subject(s) - eating disorders , appetite , underpinning , psychology , anorexia nervosa , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , psychotherapist , pathology , civil engineering , engineering
The aim of this paper is to bring eating back into the centre of the eating disorder discourse. The ability to interrogate and understand the central processes of appetite has increased considerably since the discovery of leptin and the ability to observe brain function with scanning methodologies. This has led to substantial progress in understanding the biological causative and maintaining factors in eating disorders, opening up the possibility of translating the latest findings into new forms of treatment. The biological mechanisms underpinning symptoms evolution and course of illness will first be described, follows by a discussion on integrating the research evidence in fear and feeding into patient care. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.