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...brain activity between anorexic women and healthy controls when the two groups looked at photos of themselves. Put simply, confronted with her own image, the anorexic's brain partly shuts down. The implications for our understanding of the illness are significant, argues Mondraty, a psychiatrist at the Peter Beumont Centre for Eating Disorders. Once it's full-blown, he says, anorexia "is not really about societal pressures to be thin or about the patient being vain. There is a neurological disturbance here that makes it very hard for patients to get better...
...other recipients were: John Cheever, prominent novelist and author of the recent best-seller Falconer; Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development Emeritus; and Beumont Newhall '30, photographic historian...
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