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• During the 20th century, many professionals assumed that a mental/psychological proclivity, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder or anxiety-disorder, initiated the drastic weight loss associated with AN (Sodersten et al., 2019a). For this reason, research and treatment strategies for AN were subsumed under the discipline of psychology. However, ma...
• Reward center activation has been implicated in AN (Sodersten et al., 2016).
• Most likely, there will be a need to re-educate eating behavior in ANs, as is the case with severely overweight patients (Esfandiari et al., 2018). The experience of AN would undoubtedly have distorted eating patterns, as is the case with obese patients (Sodersten et al., 2015).
• Initially, the ANs may engage in ExEx to resolve their discomfort and “inadvertently,” but importantly, maintain Tcore. However, many additional intrinsic rewards (e.g., stimulation of dopaminergic system of the brain (Sodersten et al., 2016), as well as opioid peptides (Scheurink et al., 2010) as well as extrinsic rewards (e.g., compliments on wei...

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