From Molecules to Behavior: Linking Brain Biochemistry in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex to 'Anxiety to Eat' Responses in Anorexia Nervosa.

These findings provide critical new insight into the clinically challenging feature and underlying neural mechanisms of eating-related anxiety, and indicate mI levels in the dACC could serve as a novel biomarker of illness severity that is independent of body weight to identify individuals vulnerable to disordered eating or eating pathology as well as a potential therapeutic target.