THURSDAY, March 26, 2015 — People with anorexia nervosa have an abnormal brain response to hunger signals, a new study finds.
"When most people are hungry, they are motivated to eat," study first author Christina Wierenga, an associate professor of psychiatry at the the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, said in a university news release.
"Yet individuals with anorexia can be hungry and still restrict their food intake. We wanted to identify brain mechanisms that may contribute to their ability to ignore rewards, like food," she explained.
The finding offers new insight into eating disorders and could lead to new treatments that target specific brain pathways, according to the researchers.
The findings were published recently in the journal…
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