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...hours later, when I walked into Dr. S’s office, I greeted the receptionist in Russian and she told me to take a seat by her desk. Her name was Rita, and she was going to explain some things to me. A minute later, another Russian patient walked in, a woman wearing a red and white tracksuit and a Dior hairclip. “If you have trouble afterwards, you call him and he will call you back that day and help you,” Rita explained. “Just say what problem you are having...
...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...
...different story when the two groups studied their own image. The controls' brains again lit up in predictable regions, but activity in the anorexics' brains was much more limited. Specifically, the areas involved in visual perception and emotional processing stayed out of play. Because the anorexic patient can scarcely bear to look at herself, Sachdev theorizes, "I think what the brain is trying to do is inhibit the level of processing. It will then distort [the self-image] so what the patient sees is based on preconception rather than on what is really being looked...
...anorexia. "What I'm guessing," Mondraty says, "is that when those with an underlying biological vulnerability lose a certain amount of weight, then something happens ... this [brain abnormality] clicks in. The significance of this is that it takes a bit of blame away from the family, away from the patient, and lets us - the people who treat anorexia - realize how hard it is for the young woman to get better. We're telling her to eat when everything she's experiencing is telling her she's already...
...produce vendor has to restock and then deliver, but we expect it to be early in the week,” Martin wrote in an e-mail. “And hopefully students will enjoy having the variety return. They’ve been very patient...