Eating in eating disorders

Treasure, Janet; Cardi, Valentina; Kan, Carol

doi:10.1002/erv.1090

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“…1,2 Gene-Environment Interactions in BN Most contemporary etiological theories attribute BN to the activation, by environmental pressures, of hereditary susceptibilities. 2,3 In keeping with this view, our group has documented several geneenvironment interactions (involving selected neuroregulatory genes and childhood-abuse exposures) that appear to be relevant to risk for BN or its common comorbid symtpoms. 2,4 Forming a direct rationale for the current study, we have observed the combination of low-function variants of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) polymorphism, Bcll, and exposure to childhood sexual or physical abuse to be significantly more common in women with BN than in women who eat normally and, furthermore, to predict more-pronounced affective symptoms in women with BN.…”

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Methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in bulimic women: Associations with borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and exposure to childhood abuse

Steiger

Labonté

Groleau

et al. 2013

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Objective: To compare levels of methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene (NR3C1) promoter between women with bulimia nervosa (BN) and women with no eating disorder (ED), and also to explore, in women with BN, the extent to which methylation of the GR gene promoter corresponds to childhood abuse, suicidality, or borderline personality disorder (BPD). Method:We measured methylation levels in selected NR3C1 promoter regions using DNA obtained from lymphocytes in 64 women with BN (32 selected as having a history of severe childhood abuse and 32 selected as having no such history) and 32 comparison women with no ED or history of childhood abuse.Results: Compared to noneating disordered women, women with BN and comorbid BPD (or BN with a history of suicidality) showed significantly more methylation of specific exon 1C sites. There was also a (nonsignificant) result indicative of greater methylation in some 1C sites among women with BN, when compared (as a group) to women with no ED. No parallel effects owing to childhood abuse were observed. Discussion: Our findings associate BN (when accompanied by BPD or suicidality) with hypermethylation of certain GR exon 1C promoter sites. We discuss theoretical and clinical implications of our findings. V V C 2013 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in bulimic women: Associations with borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and exposure to childhood abuse

Steiger

Labonté

Groleau

et al. 2013

Intl J Eating Disorders

113

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“…Patients with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, for example, will commonly insist that they are fat, even while completely emaciated (Bruch, 1978;Treasure, Claudino, & Zucker, 2010). Such body image distortions are a strong predictor of negative prognosis (Casper, Halmi, Goldberg, Eckert, & Davis, 1979) and of relapse following recovery (Fairburn, Peveler, Jones, Hope, & Doll, 1993;Keel, Dorer, Franko, Jackson, & Herzog, 2005).…”

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Distorted Body Representations in Healthy Cognition

Longo

2017

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Delusions and misperceptions about the body are a conspicuous feature of numerous neurological and psychiatric conditions. In stark contrast to such pathological cases, the immediacy and familiarity of our ordinary experience of our body can make it seem as if our representation of our body is highly accurate, even infallible. Recent research has begun to demonstrate, however, that large and systematic distortions of body representation are a normal part of healthy cognition. Here, I will describe this research, focusing on distortions of body representations underlying tactile distance perception and position sense. I will also discuss evidence for distortions of higherorder body representations, such as the conscious body image. Finally, I will end with a discussion of the potential relations among different body representations and their distortions. Distortions of Body Representations 3Our body is the core of our sense of self, and central to our personal identity as an individual. We experience our body from the outside, as a physical object in the world like any other, but also from the inside, as an object of immediate experience (Bermúdez, Marcel, & Eilan, 1995). The intimate and direct connection we have with our own body can make knowledge of our body seem immune to the usual sources of perceptual error and illusion. Indeed, the very fact that we have multiple ways of knowing about our body (from inside, and from outside) could very well contribute to making the overall perception of the body highly reliable. While distortions and misperceptions of the body are a familiar result of several psychiatric and neurological conditions, it is natural to suppose that healthy adults have highly accurate -even infallible -knowledge about the physical structure of their bodies. In this paper, I will describe recent research that has begun to question this assumption, showing large and systematic distortions of body representation in healthy adults. After giving a brief summary of the varied distortions of body representation found in pathological conditions, I will describe research showing large distortions of body representations

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“…He provides a short report of his behaviour, supporting his need for an expert opinion by drawing attention to potential comorbidity, not an uncommon characteristic of eating disorders (Treasure et al 2010), using an intensifier ('always') to strengthen his subject position. In declaring his lack of proficiency in rejecting food ('i don't no how to vomit food out'), he arguably presents eating disorders as learned behaviours, conditions that have to be mastered to be 'legitimately' identified as bulimic.…”

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‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication

Mullany¹,

Smith

Harvey

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CAM

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This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the strategies used in adolescents’ health questions. We focus on the emergent theme of Weight and Eating, a concern which features prominently in adolescents’ requests to medical practitioners. The majority of advice requests are authored by adolescent girls, with queries peaking at age 12. A combined quantitative and qualitative analysis provides detailed insights into adolescents’ communicative strategies. Examinations of question types, register and a discourse-based analysis draw attention to dominant discourses of the body, including a ‘discourse of slenderness’ and a ‘discourse of normality’, which exercise negative influences on adolescents’ dietary behaviours. The findings are of applied linguistic relevance to health practitioners and educators, as they provide them with access to adolescents’ health queries in their own language.

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Eating in eating disorders

Cited by 305 publications

References 63 publications

Methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in bulimic women: Associations with borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and exposure to childhood abuse

Methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in bulimic women: Associations with borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and exposure to childhood abuse

Distorted Body Representations in Healthy Cognition

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication

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