Brain volume

Article Type: Food facts From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 40, Issue 6.

A team of American psychologists and neuroscientists have found that adult brain volume, which can be reduced by Anorexia Nervosa, can be regained. The research, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders,revealed that through specialist treatment patients with this eating disorder can reverse this symptom and regain grey matter volume.

Anorexia Nervosa wreaks havoc on many different parts of the body, including the brain. The team, based at the Columbia University Center for Eating Disorders used magnetic resonance imaging to take pictures of the brains of 32 adult female inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa and 21 healthy women without any psychiatric illnesses.