is anorexia nervosa an eating disorder? - Maudsley Parents

Blunted Insula-Striatal Signal in
Response to Sugar in Recovered AN
• Is there a reduced reward (sensoryinteroceptive-hedonic-motivation)
response to
hunger
• Does this contribute to pursuit of emaciation to the
point of death
• Is only taste involved, or is there an alteration of
all interoceptive stimuli
– Role in distorted body image
– Lack of recognition of the symptoms of malnutrition
– Altered insight and motivation to change