Too fat to fit through the door: first evidence for disturbed body-scaled action in anorexia nervosa during locomotion.

To date, research on the disturbed experience of body size in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) mainly focused on the conscious perceptual level (i.e. body image). Here we investigated whether these disturbances extend to body schema: an unconscious, action-related representation of the body. AN patients (n = 1...

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Main Authors: Anouk Keizer, Monique A M Smeets, H Chris Dijkerman, Siarhei A Uzunbajakau, Annemarie van Elburg, Albert Postma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3667140?pdf=render