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From: Tarubva Maposa [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 December 2000 10:46
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Subject: REQUEST FOR LITERATURE ON PERCEPTION AND OBESITY
I wish to request for the whereabouts of full text
articles concerned with perceptions of weight and body
size.
I do not have an article reference to offer but a quote from
Ramachandran,V.S in his book Phantoms In The Brain:
"I also started wondering about anorexia nervosa. these patients have
disturbances in appetite but are also delusional about their body image --
claiming actually to "see" that they are fat when looking in the mirror,
even though they are grotesquely thin. Is the disorder of appetite (linked
to feeding and satiety centers in the hypothalamus) primary, or does the
body image distortion cause the appetite problem?"
He writes some more but I only use two fingers...
Noemi
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