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Study protocol: Using deep brain stimulation, multimodal neuroimaging and neuroethics to understand and treat severe enduring Anorexia Nervosa

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Background: Research suggests that altered eating and the pursuit of thinness in Anorexia Nervosa is, in part, a consequence of aberrant reward circuitry. The neural circuits involved in reward processing and compulsivity overlap significantly and this has been suggested as a transdiagnostic factor underpinning obsessive compulsive disorder, addictions and eating disorders. The nucleus accumbens is central to both reward processing and compulsivity. In previous studies, deep ... Expand abstract
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10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00024

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Psychiatry
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Oxford college:
Keble College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
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Frontiers Media
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Frontiers in Psychiatry More from this journal
Volume:
9
Article number:
24
Publication date:
2018-04-06
Acceptance date:
2018-01-22
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1664-0640
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820955
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2018-01-22

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