1.0 link 61506 <![CDATA[Anorexia: Wired Like Asperger's?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trisha-gura/anorexia-wired-like-asper_b_61506.html They do it because their brains are wired to. Girls with anorexia nervosa starve due to neural processing problems -- much like those associated with Asperger's disorder, a mild form of autism.

That's the latest theory of eating disorders, proffered in The Times (U.K.) by Janet Treasure, head of the Eating Disorders Unit at the South London and Maudsley Hospital NHS Trust.

In essence, faulty circuitry in the brain causes the restrictive, repetitive and obsessive behaviors of both...

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