Metabolic state and value-based decision-making in acute and recovered female patients with anorexia nervosa

Conclusion: The propensity for risk aversion as found in recovered patients with anorexia nervosa could help them successfully complete therapy, or it could reflect sequelae of the disorder. Conversely, ghrelin findings might be related to a mechanism contributing to disease maintenance; that is, in acutely underweight anorexia nervosa, a hungry state may facilitate the ability to forgo an immediate reward to achieve a (dysfunctional) long-term goal. PMID: 32129584 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Psychiatry Neurosci Source Type: research