Altered interoceptive activation before, during, and after aversive breathing load in women remitted from anorexia nervosa.

CONCLUSIONS: Anticipatory deactivation with a subsequent exaggerated brain response during and after an aversive body state may contribute to difficulty predicting and adapting to internal state fluctuation. Because eating changes our interoceptive state, restriction may be one method of avoiding aversive, unpredictable internal change in AN.
PMID: 28714434 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - July 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Berner LA, Simmons AN, Wierenga CE, Bischoff-Grethe A, Paulus MP, Bailer UF, Ely AV, Kaye WH Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research