Anorexia Nervosa Is Characterized by Increased Adiponectin Plasma Levels and Reduced Nonoxidative Glucose Metabolism
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Disturbances of neurotransmitter metabolism in anorexia nervosa.
My understanding of anorexia nervosa is that it is ultimately a biological solution to an existential problem for an adolescent female and her family in the classical case. I t is not seen by the individual concerned as an affliction but rather, perhaps, as adaptive and egosyntonic. In order to protect her status the so-called patient will often successfully conceal major aspects of her feeling...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0021-972X,1945-7197
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-021215