User:Kmj2016/History of anorexia nervosa

Recent History

According to Disorders in Social Relationships published by the Sciences Po University press anorexia nervosa affects young girls in the middle and upper social class. The symptoms of anorexia nervosa is closely entwined with "social relations". Between the ages of 15-24 with the disorder are at a 10% greater risk of dying than others at the same age. In a 2020 review it was found that AN runs in families and is often fatal.

It was also found that "The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) estimates that between 0.3 and 0.4 percent of all young women and 0.1 percent of young men suffer from AN on this or any day. They estimate that approximately 1 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men reported Anorexia during their lifetimes" in the 2020 Breakthrough Research in Anorexia Nervosa by Drs. Cynthia Bulik and Walter Kaye.

Recent Found Insights and Treatments

Anorexia nervosa has been classified as a biopsychosocial disease that contains important genetic and neurobiological roots.

In the 2020 Breakthrough article it was also found that "Medications, psychedelic medicine, and deep brain stimulation may offer hope and help us to understand which diseases are the most like Anorexia Nervosa, major depression, OCD, or SUDs."

There has been progress with studying AN and it is commonly linked to important genetic and neurobiological causes.

Recent findings have showed that in an experiment you have the control group which is a group of people who are hungry. Hunger drives a search for food, eating, and making food more rewarding. Overall, starvation activates the brain circuits that motivate eating. The experimental group (people with AN) have reported that hunger does not have the same effect on food reward or intake. The results also showed a reduction of neural activation to taste stimulation in the brains anterior insula that is within the circuitry that involves connected regions that's purpose is to recognize the feeling of hunger.

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