Evidence is reviewed to support the idea that effects of starvation cause the syndrome of anorexia nervosa to be self-perpetuating. This article emphasizes physiological abnormalities of sympathetic activity, norepinephrine and serotonin metabolism, arginine vasopressin, gut hormones and endorphinergic activity, and how they may be implicated in this process.
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