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Background: It is possible that psychopathological differences exist between the restricting and bulimic forms of anorexia nervosa. We investigated localized differences of brain blood flow of anorexia nervosa patients using SPECT image analysis with statistic parametric mapping (SPM) in an attempt to link brain blood flow patterns to neurophysiologic characteristics.

Specific activation in cortical regions suggests an association between habitual binge/purge behavior and the food recognition process linked to anxiety in patients with anorexia nervosa.

Our findings suggested that a rapid increase of energy intake might cause reactive hypoglycemia with characteristic insulin metabolism, that is, an elevated level of insulin secretion during the very early phase.

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