Do u have uneven eating habits? Do you feel that if youface any change in emotion then your eating habits change with that particularmood, thoughts, and emotions?
Well, then you might be facing the not so common butcommon “Eating Disorder” which is a very serious condition affecting physical,psychological, and social function.
Various types of order contain anorexia nervosa, bulimianervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder,other specified feeding and eating disorders, pica, and rumination disorders.
Taken together, eating disorders affect up to 5% of thepopulation, most often develop in adolescence and young adulthood, mainly lyingbetween the age group of 12 and 25).
Several, especially anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaare more common in women, but they can all occur at any age and affect anygender.
JAMA Network Open has published a cross-sectionalfunctional brain imaging study which results in the saying that the BMI levelsor amount of food intake has an impact on the Brain reward processing.
An eating disorder is caused due to an error in theprediction in the BMI machine, food intake control circuitry in the brain, andalteration of this circuitry and when linked with the behavioral traits linkedto overeating or undereating, researchers noted.
“Food restriction, episodic binge eating or purging varyacross the diagnostic groups, whereas body dissatisfaction and drive forthinness is typically elevated across all eating disorders, as are anxioustraits and sensitivity to salient stimuli,” Guido K. W. Frank, MD, of thedepartment of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, andcolleagues wrote
“Identifying how those behaviors are associated withparticular biologic mechanisms could help create a better understanding of theunderlying eating disorder pathophysiologic factors and development of specifictreatments. To adopt a dimensional conceptualization of eatingdisorder-specific behaviors and neurobiological factors, we recruitedindividuals across the eating disorder spectrum and applied the predictionerror construct from the National Institute of Mental Health Research DomainCriteria (RDoC) project.”
The experiment helped on a large sample of individualswith eating disorders and healthy controls so as to see the response of thebrain during an unwanted salient sweet stimulus and make an observation abouthow the brain will respond to the ventral striatal-hypothalamic circuitry,which is linked with the control of food consumption and also observing ifsalient stimulus-response and the behaviors of eating problems are inter-connected.
This experiment was conducted at a university brainimaging facility and eating disorder treatment program where the eatingdisorder spectrum was matched with the healthy controls of 317 women, out ofwhich 197 had eating disorders and 120 served as healthy controls.
The mean age of the participants was 23.8 years and themean BMI was 20.8. Further, they handpicked some to conclude if any associationexisted between salient stimulus-response and eating disorder-related behavior.
The researchers learned the link between conditionedvisual and unconditioned taste stimuli, the contestant’s dopamine-relatedexpectation error was changed by conducting sucrose taste classic conditioningparadigm.
Further, hierarchical brain activation between brainregions related to food intake was done by studying dynamic effectiveconnectivity during expected sweet taste receipt.
The outcomes and measures had prediction error brainreward response across insula and striatum; dynamic effective connectivitybetween the hypothalamus and ventral striatum; and demographic and behavioralvariables and their associations with prediction error brain response andconnectivity edge coefficients.
Prediction error response was elevated in participantswith anorexia nervosa and in participants with eating disorders reacted in anopposite manner with body mass index, eating disorder inventory–3 binge eatingtendency, and trait anxiety. Ventral striatal to hypothalamus-directed connectivitywas positively correlated with ventral striatal prediction error in eatingdisorders and negatively associated with feeling out of control after eating.
“Temperamental traits are biologically oriented behaviorsthat affect eating disorder behaviors,” Frank and colleagues wrote.
“Treatmentmodules that specifically target those behaviors may be a key element topromote behavior change and lasting recovery.”
Psychiatric disorders most common mood and anxietydisorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and alcohol and drug abuse problemsare usually the cause of eating disorders.
Heredity and genes are also a reason for eating disordersand that is experimentally proven, but families which don’t have any relationwith this disorder can also be affected.
Psychological, behavioral, nutritional, and other medicalcomplications are some things that cause the ease of eating disorders. If notdealt with care can cause malnutrition or purging behaviors including, heartand gastrointestinal problems as well as other potentially fatal conditions.
Take proper medical care and meditating are some thingsthat can be done as a solution for eating disorders. So, try seeking medicalhelp just in case you feel you suffer from the same, resume your healthy eatinghabits, and recover yourself both emotionally as well as psychologicallybecause mental well-being is really crucial as well as significant.
And most importantly don't let the outside happenings affect the inner you!