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MINI REVIEW article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Eating Behavior
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1467795
This article is part of the Research Topic Eating Disorders as a Challenge for Public Health: From Health Policies to Evidence-based Treatments View all articles

OVARIAN HORMONES AND EATING DISORDERS

Provisionally accepted
John K. Young John K. Young *
  • College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington DC, United States

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    The goals of this minireview are to 1) briefly review the genetic, physiological, and psychological features of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, 2) examine recent data about how sex hormones could contribute to the dramatic sex differences in the incidence of these disorders, and 3) propose mechanisms by which mutations in genes linked to anorexia nervosa could lead to abnormalities in the brain response to estrogen. These goals conform to the guidelines listed for the scope of Frontiers in Psychology/eating behavior subset.

    Keywords: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, estrogen, Progesterone, polycystic ovaries, Treatment

    Received: 20 Jul 2024; Accepted: 26 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Young. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: John K. Young, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington DC, United States

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