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Assessing Activity-based Anorexia in Mice
Published on: May 14, 2018
A model-driven approach to studying dissociations between body size mental representations in anorexia nervosa
Anne-Laure Moscone1, Michel-Ange Amorim1, Christine Le Scanff1
1CIAMS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; CIAMS, Université d'Orléans, 45067 Orléans, France.
Abstract:
This study compared dissociations between mental representations of current, ideal and normal body sizes (i.e., Current BS, Ideal BS and Normal BS) for women with anorexia nervosa (AN group, n=56) and healthy women (control group, n=56). Along the lines of the single channel model of Cornelissen et al. (2013), the discrepancy between Current BS and BMI for both groups was adequately described along a common linear continuum of Current BS (mis)perception. Body size mental representations were ranked similarly (Ideal BS
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