Disturbances of neurotransmitter metabolism in anorexia nervosa
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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: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1079/pns19780025