Alterations in brain serotonin activity may be associated with anorexia nervosa
5th Sep 2005, 20:29 GMT
Women who have had a certain type of anorexia nervosa show an alteration of the activity of a chemical in their brain that is widely associated with anxiety and other affective disorders more than one year after recovery, according to a study in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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