Investigating neuroinflammation in the activity-based anorexia (ABA) model
Carlotta Siddi, Chiara Camoglio, Sabrina D’Amelio, Vittoria Spero, Raffaella Molteni, Maria Scherma, Simona Dedoni, Ida Nillson, Paola Fadda · FENS Forum 2024
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious eating disorder prevalently widespread in female subjects, characterized by a severe restriction of caloric intake, fear of becoming fat, dysmorphophobia and hyperactivity (DSM–5). Nowadays growing evidence shed light about the involvement of immunoinflammatory pathways in AN, considering the rise in the peripheral levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in patients (Solmi et al., 2015). Furthermore, neuroinflammation may be an additional characteristic of AN (Rahimian et al., 2021), since it has been observed in other psychiatric disorders. The Activity-Based A
ePoster · Neuroscience