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Neuroimaging of Eating Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Addictions: Overlapping and Unique Systems

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Eating Disorders, Addictions and Substance Use Disorders

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This book chapter examines neuroimaging studies of eating and addictive disorders in order to explore shared and distinct domains of functioning. We adopt a dimensional approach, focusing specifically on domains of impairment across eating and addictive disorders: executive control, reward and motivation, emotional reactivity, memory/learning, and interoceptive awareness. Although the literature is limited in some domains, binge-eating disorder and bulimia nervosa appear to share more neural commonalities with addictive disorders (e.g., diminished executive control, heightened reward sensitivity) relative to anorexia nervosa. The similarities and differences in eating and addictive disorders may have implications for the conceptualization of etiology and the development of treatments for eating disorders. Finally, we outline areas of future research needed to further clarify the relationship between addictive and eating concerns.

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  4. Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

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Gearhardt, A.N., Boswell, R.G., Potenza, M.N. (2014). Neuroimaging of Eating Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Addictions: Overlapping and Unique Systems. In: Brewerton, T., Baker Dennis, A. (eds) Eating Disorders, Addictions and Substance Use Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45378-6_4

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