Perceptive Body Image Distortion in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: Changes After Treatment

One key symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN) is body image distortion (BID). For example, AN patients who are asked to perform body size estimation tasks tend to overestimate their body size; this is thought to indicate a distortion of the perceptive component of body image. Although BID is an important...

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Main Authors: Anke W. Dalhoff, Hugo Romero Frausto, Georg Romer, Ida Wessing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00748/full