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Mount Sinai Researchers Find Specific Therapy That Teaches Patients to Tolerate Stomach and Body Discomfort That Can Cause Food Avoidance in Adolescent Females with Anorexia Nervosa and other Low-Weight Eating Disorders

A trial of interoceptive exposure - a therapy that teaches patients how to tolerate stomach and body discomfort in order to reduce restrictive eating - improved functional deficits in a brain region (the anterior insula) that’s involved in the visceral disgust that epitomizes food avoidance in adolescent females with low-weight eating disorders like anorexia nervosa.

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