Nutritional status affects cortical folding: Lessons learned from anorexia nervosa
Cortical folding is thought to remain relatively invariant after birth. Therefore, differences seen in psychiatric disorders have been proposed as early biomarkers or used as intermediate phenotypes in imaging genetics studies. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with drastic and rapid structural brain alterations and may thus be an ideal model disorder to study environmental influences on cortical folding.
Source: Biological Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fabio Bernardoni, Joseph A. King, Daniel Geisler, Julian Birkenstock, Friederike I. Tam, Kerstin Weidner, Veit Roessner, Tonya White, Stefan Ehrlich Tags: Archival Report Source Type: research
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