Anorexia visible with brain scans

Finding new ways to drug, surgerize of otherwise violate you, needlessly.

"Sophisticated scans have revealed the eating disorder anorexia is linked to specific patterns of brain activity."

Sophisticated. Yeah, right.

"Even young women recovering from anorexia who have maintained a healthy weight for over a year had vastly different brain activity patterns.

The findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry point to a brain region linked to anxiety and perfectionism."

"Perfectionism" - "a personal standard, attitude, or philosophy that demands perfection and rejects anything less."

Clearly a standard to which researchers do not hold themselves.

"The University of Pittsburgh authors said the understanding might help with the development of new treatments."

Read "income" for docs and other treaters.

"A spokeswoman from the eating disorders association 'beat' said: 'This demonstrates how complex eating disorders are and underlines that they should be treated as a serious mental illness and not a silly diet gone wrong.'"

Note there is no cause and effect. Only observation.

It's more as if being a spokeswoman or a researcher is a "serious mental illness."