TY - JOUR
T1 - Time to make a change
T2 - A call for more experimental research on key mechanisms in anorexia nervosa
AU - Glashouwer, Klaske A.
AU - Brockmeyer, Timo
AU - Cardi, Valentina
AU - Jansen, Anita
AU - Murray, Stuart B.
AU - Blechert, Jens
AU - Levinson, Cheri A.
AU - Schmidt, Ulrike
AU - Tchanturia, Kate
AU - Wade, Tracey D.
AU - Svaldi, Jennifer
AU - Giel, Katrin E.
AU - Favaro, Angela
AU - Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
AU - Friederich, Hans Christoph
AU - Naumann, Eva
AU - Treasure, Janet L.
AU - Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna
AU - Vocks, Silja
AU - Werthmann, Jessica
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a life‐threatening eating disorder, characterised by persistent pathological weight loss behaviours and an intense fear of weight gain and food consumption. Although there is an abundance of scientific theories on the neurobiological, psychological and sociocultural factors thought to be involved in the maintenance of AN (e.g., Fairburn, Shafran, & Cooper, 1999; Steinglass & Walsh, 2016; Treasure et al., 2020), there is little experimental research testing these ideas. The need for theory firmly grounded in empirical evidence becomes strikingly clear when we consider that current treatments for patients with AN are limited in their effectiveness...
AB - Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a life‐threatening eating disorder, characterised by persistent pathological weight loss behaviours and an intense fear of weight gain and food consumption. Although there is an abundance of scientific theories on the neurobiological, psychological and sociocultural factors thought to be involved in the maintenance of AN (e.g., Fairburn, Shafran, & Cooper, 1999; Steinglass & Walsh, 2016; Treasure et al., 2020), there is little experimental research testing these ideas. The need for theory firmly grounded in empirical evidence becomes strikingly clear when we consider that current treatments for patients with AN are limited in their effectiveness...
KW - eating behavior
KW - anorexia nervosa
KW - research methodologies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086862085&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/erv.2754
DO - 10.1002/erv.2754
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 32567176
AN - SCOPUS:85086862085
SN - 1072-4133
VL - 28
SP - 361
EP - 367
JO - European Eating Disorders Review
JF - European Eating Disorders Review
IS - 4
ER -