What Structural Brain Abnormalities Have Researchers Discovered in Patients with Anorexia

question 29

Multiple Choice

What structural brain abnormalities have researchers discovered in patients with anorexia nervosa when they are ill?

• A) Decreased hypothalamus size
• B) Decreased ventricle size
• C) Frontal lobe lesions
• D) Loss of grey matter and reduced brain mass

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