Anorexia nervosa is linked to reduced brain structure in reward and somatosensory regions: a meta-analysis of VBM studies.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Structural imaging studies demonstrate brain tissue abnormalities in eating disorders, yet a quantitative analysis has not been done.Methods
In global and regional meta-analyses of 9 voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies, with a total of 228 eating disorder participants (currently ill with anorexia nervosa), and 240 age-matched healthy controls, we compare brain volumes using global and regional analyses.Results
Anorexia nervosa (AN) patients have global reductions in gray (effect size?=?-0.66) and white matter (effect size?=?-0.74) and increased cerebrospinal fluid (effect size?=?0.98) and have regional decreases in left hypothalamus, left inferior parietal lobe, right lentiform nucleus and right caudate, and no significant increases. No significant difference in hemispheric lateralization was found.Conclusions
Global and regional meta-analyses suggest that excessive restrained eating as found in those with anorexia nervosa coincides with structural brain changes analogous to clinical symptoms.
SUBMITTER: Titova OE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3664070 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Anorexia nervosa is linked to reduced brain structure in reward and somatosensory regions: a meta-analysis of VBM studies.
Titova Olga E OE Hjorth Olof C OC Schiöth Helgi B HB Brooks Samantha J SJ
BMC psychiatry 20130409
<h4>Background</h4>Structural imaging studies demonstrate brain tissue abnormalities in eating disorders, yet a quantitative analysis has not been done.<h4>Methods</h4>In global and regional meta-analyses of 9 voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies, with a total of 228 eating disorder participants (currently ill with anorexia nervosa), and 240 age-matched healthy controls, we compare brain volumes using global and regional analyses.<h4>Results</h4>Anorexia nervosa (AN) patients have global reduct ...[more]
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