Girls with anorexia have increased neural activation to fearful faces

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Girls with anorexia have increased neural activation to fearful faces

A recent neuroimaging study of adolescent females with anorexia nervosa reported increased neural activation in the somatomotor cortex when viewing fearful faces following short-term weight recovery. There were no differences in reactivity to neutral, angry, or surprised faces. The paper was published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorte…