Noradrenergic Function in the Medial Hypothalamus: Potential Relation to Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

Persistent Alterations in Behavior and Serotonin Activity after Recovery from Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosaa

“…Although anorexia and bulimia nervosa are categorized as eating disorders, pathological eating behavior has tended to be viewed as derivative and not the primary pathophysiology. In the past decade, a better understanding of the modulation of feeding behavior has generated a body of knowledge that allows us to test the hypothesis of whether or not eating‐disorder patients have a defect in some system that modulates feeding behavior 3,4 . This paper focuses on whether a disturbance of serotonin activity contributes to the psychopathology of eating disorders and whether such alterations are state‐ or trait‐related.…”