Overview | Imaging Studies | Body Image Distortion | Appetitive Regulation | Implications
The assumed absence of confounding nutritional influences
in recovered eating-disordered women suggests that persistent psychobiological
abnormalities and atypical behaviors might be trait related and
etiopathogenetic. Investigators (Casper 1990; Kaye et al. 1998; Srinivasagam et al. 1995; Strober 1980; Wagner et al. 2006a) have found that many
women who were in long-term recovery from AN and BN have persistence
of anxiety, harm avoidance, perfectionism, and obsessional behaviors.
Moreover, persons recovered from AN and BN often express associated eating
disorder psychological symptoms, including ineffectiveness, drive
for thinness, and significant psychopathology related to eating
habits. Therefore, persistence of certain features after recovery
raises the question of whether a disturbance of such behaviors may
in fact occur premorbidly and contribute to the pathogenesis of
AN and BN.