Teenage eating disorders linked to brain development issues, study finds
dailyrecord.co.ukThe development of a teenager's brain can play a key role in the link between mental health and disordered eating in young people, according to a new study.
The research from King's College London investigated the links between the disorders, brain structure, and genetics.It was found that the process of brain maturation can play a factor in whether teenagers start developing disordered eating patterns.
The process of brain maturation is where the volume and thickness of the cortex - outer layer of the brain - decreases during adolescence.
These changes to the brain have been shown to have an effect on whether teens develop two kinds of disordered eating - restrictive or emotional/uncontrolled - as a young adulthood.Restrictive eating is where you deliberately limit the food you intake to control your body weight and how you look - dieting or purging.
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