title: Ask the doctor.  I have a friend who was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder.  What is this disorder and what causes it?
authors.forename: Michael Craig
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D057215:Body Dysmorphic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology