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Medial prefrontal cortex activity associated with symptom provocation in eating disorders

Rudolf Uher1, Tara Murphy, Michael J Brammer

  • 1Institute of Psychiatry PO59, Eating Disorders Unit, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. r.uher@iop.kcl.ac.uk

Summary

Neural correlates of eating disorders reveal shared brain patterns in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Abnormal medial prefrontal cortex activation to symptom-related stimuli suggests a transdiagnostic neural basis for these conditions.

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