AIMAN INAM
NEW YORK: In the latest study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers have discovered that a mishmash of hereditary and ecological menace aspects can generate the obsessive limitation of food ingestion i.e. anorexia in humans.
The combination of genetic, natural, emotional, and sociocultural variables augments the hazard of anorexia. However, the results possibly will facilitate to discover cure for the disease, study said.
Lori Zeltser from Columbia University held: “This experiment not only shows us the most important factors that contribute to the onset of anorexia, it is also helping us to identify signaling pathways in the brain that ultimately drive this potentially fatal eating disorder.”
Anorexia is not curable and has the uppermost fatality rate of any psychiatric syndrome i.e. 8 to 15 per cent.