title: [Eating disorders].
abstract: Eating disorders are characterized by aberrant patterns of eating behavior, including such symptoms as extreme restriction of food intake or binge eating, and severe disturbances in the perception of body shape and weight, as well as a drive for thinness and obsessive fears of becoming fat. Eating disorder is an important cause for physical and psychosocial morbidity in young women. Patients with eating disorders have a deficit in the cognitive process and functional abnormalities in the brain system. Recently, brain-imaging techniques have been used to identify specific brain areas that function abnormally in patients with eating disorders. We have discussed the clinical and cognitive aspects of eating disorders and summarized neuroimaging studies of eating disorders.
authors: Health Service Center, Hiroshima University.
authors: Yoshie
authors: Y
authors: Miyake
authors: Yuri
authors: Y
authors: Okamoto
authors: Ran
authors: R
authors: Jinnin
authors: Kazuhiro
authors: K
authors: Shishida
authors: Yasumasa
authors: Y
authors: Okamoto
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D002032:Bulimia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications