From Molecules to Behavior: Linking Brain Biochemistry in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex to 'Anxiety to Eat' Responses in Anorexia Nervosa.
Yulu SongSarah H GuoChristopher W Davies-JenkinsAngela S GuardaRichard A E EddenKimberly R SmithPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)
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.