Binge eating may map onto widespread brain differences in bulimia nervosa

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Add as preferred source Credit: Kari Alfonso from Pexels Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that individuals with bulimia nervosa have structural differences in brain regions involved in reward and motivation, as well as social and sensory processing, and that more frequent binge eating is associated with more widespread differences in brain structure, according to research published today in JAMA Psychiatry .

Bulimia nervosa is the second-most common eating disorder in the world, characterized by recurrent binge eating and compensatory behaviors. Compared with other psychiatric illnesses, little is known about its neurobiology, and previous neuroimaging studies have generally included small numbers of participants and produced inconsistent findings.