Reply to: punishing food: what brain activity can tell us about the representation of food in recovered anorexia nervosaCowdrey, F. A., Park, R. J., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. (2012) Reply to: punishing food: what brain activity can tell us about the representation of food in recovered anorexia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry, 71 (8). e33. ISSN 0006-3223 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.11.008 Abstract/SummaryEating disorders are characterized by aberrant cognitions and behaviors around food. We used a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging task in a sample of recovered anorexia nervosa subjects to study the neural response to both pleasant and aversive food tastes and pictures compared with a group of matched female subjects who had never had the disorder. We report that individuals recovered from anorexia nervosa have an increased neural response to rewarding and aversive food stimuli, in the form of chocolate (e.g., in the ventral striatum) and moldy strawberries (e.g., in the caudate).
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