Recent Advances in Neuroimaging to Model Eating Disorder Neurobiology

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Frank, Guido K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Dimensional; Eating disorder; Imaging; Neurobiology; RDoC

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BULIMIA; CONDITIONING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EATING DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PROCESS MODEL; REVIEW; REWARD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BRAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BINGE-EATING DISORDER; BRAIN; BULIMIA; BULIMIA NERVOSA; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84924371213     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0559-z     Document Type: Review

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