Eating Disorders: A Brief Summary

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Brief Summary: Eating disorders (ED, Ana,She) are common among men, women, and children. Eating Disorder are caused by a complex interaction of genetic, biological, behavioral, psychological, and social factors. Researchers do not fully understand the whole reason why people have eating disorders. They are using the latest technology and science to find treatment and better understand the reason how people can harm themselves by starvation or by binging and purging their food. Research does show that there are “different patterns of brain activity between women with bulimia nervosa and healthy women.”

How it relates to psychology: Since we are talking about the brain in psychology, I believe that it’s more mental and emotional. They “think”

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