The Anorexic Brain
Neuroimaging improves understanding of eating disorder
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Luke Lucas
By Meghan Rosen
In a spacious hotel room not far from the beach in La Jolla, Calif., Kelsey Heenan gripped her fiancé’s hand. Heenan, a 20-year-old anorexic woman, couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Walter Kaye, director of the eating disorders program at the University of California, San Diego, was telling a handful of rapt patients and their family members what the latest brain imaging research suggested about their disorder.
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It’s not your fault, he told them.