Week 4 additional reading

Question 1

Gilbert 2012 - disclosure

Answer 1

• Faster access to specialist services associated with being older at first disclosure and with disclosures that involved a gp, partner or mother
  
  • Initiating disclosure might lead to earlier access to treatment for individuals with ED

Question 2

Pike 2015 - ED in ASIA

Answer 2

• Increase in ED is a product of westernisation
  
  • Societal change in form of industrialisation and urbanisation occurring independently from western influence are critical factors of ED rising in Asia
  • ED are not culture-bound or specific but culture-reactive

Question 3

Kaye 2013 - neurobiology of AN

Answer 3

• Those with AN tend to have childhood temperament and personality traits like anxiety, obsession and perfectionism which may reflect neurobiological risk factors for developing AN
  
  • Restricted eating may be a means of reducing negative mood caused by skewed interactions between serotonin aversive or inhibitory and dopamine reward systems
  • Brain imaging studies suggest that altered eating is a consequence of dysregulated reward and awareness of homeostatic needs