“…Characteristics of chronicity of anorexia nervosa, such as vomiting, laxative abuse (Garfinkel, Moldofsky, & Garner, 1977;Halmi, Brodland, & Loney, 1973;Hsu et al, 1979;Steinhausen, 1983), and extreme loss of weight (Dally, 1969;Hsu et al, 1979;Morgan & Russel, 1975), are associated with ventricular enlargement (Hoffman et al, 1989;Krieg et al, 1988;Lankenau, Swigar, Bhimani, Luchins, & Quinlan, 1985;Nussbaum, Shenker, Marc, & Klein, 1980). Artmann et al (1985) have shown that anorexic patients with histories of PBCs, especially low birth weight, exhibited a higher rate of brain abnormalities, and were less likely to show improvement in ventricular size on refeeding, than those without PBCs.…”