Commentary on "Vulnerability to Substance Abuse in Eating Disorders" by Kaye and Wisniewski
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Drs. Kaye and Wisniewski propose an elegant and comprehensive study of serotonergic function in two eating disorder subtypes: anorexia and bulimia nervosa. There is a growing body of literature on the seroto-nergic mediation of behavioral inhibition and affective constriction in both humans and animals. Serotonergic hyperfunction leads to inhibited behavior in animals and anxious and obsessional behavior in humans, while the converse appears to be true with serotonergic hypofunction.
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Vulnerability to substance abuse in eating disorders.
Two types of eating disorders, bulimia nervosa in normal-weight bulimic (NWB) women and restricting-type anorexia nervosa (RAN), may provide insights into permissive or protective factors contributing to psychoactive substance use disorders (PSUD) in humans. These two eating disorders, while often grouped together, are at opposite extremes for rate of PSUD. Substance abuse is common in NWB pati...
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