APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Disruption in Functional Connectivity of Body Image Brain Networks in Women with Anorexia Nervosa

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Clinical Science

  • Julia Felicione
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Julia Felicione
    Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
  • Reitumetse Pulumo
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Franziska Plessow
    Harvard Medical School
  • Franziska Plessow
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Tolley Christiane
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Elisa Asanza
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Tara Holmes
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Karen Miller
    Harvard Medical School
  • Karen Miller
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Madhusmita Misra
    Harvard Medical School
  • Madhusmita Misra
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Kamryn Eddy
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Kamryn Eddy
    Harvard Medical School
  • Anne Klibanski
    Harvard Medical School
  • Anne Klibanski
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Thilo Deckersbach
    Harvard Medical School
  • Thilo Deckersbach
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Thilo Deckersbach
    Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
  • Elizabeth Lawson
    Harvard Medical School
  • Elizabeth Lawson
    Massachusetts General Hospital

Abstract

45 women (31 with anorexia nervosa and 14 controls) underwent a resting-state fMRI scan before and after a standardized 400 kcal meal. Seed-based resting-state fMRI analyses using a-priori regions-of-interest revealed significant differences between patients and controls in both pre- and postmeal conditions in functional networks associated with body image disturbances.

Psychopathology

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