16.10.2013Feeling fat: Body image and its depiction in the brain of anorexia nervosa patients

Prof. Dr. Boris Suchan, Neuropsychology

Anorexia nervosa is one of the most widely known eating disorders. One of the features of this illness: patients misjudge their body measurements. Until now only very little is known about the reasons for this phenomenon. In his talk Prof. Boris Suchan explain this phenomenon using neuroscientific research approaches. For several years we have known that there are specialized areas in the brain which are responsible for the visual processing of the body. These areas are connected with the misjudgment of body images in patients with anorexia nervosa and how these areas can be altered in their functions through therapeutic interventions.