Beyond the Activity-Based Anorexia Model: Reinforcing Values of Exercise and Feeding Examined in Stressed Adolescent Male and Female Mice

• Main Authors: Imane Hurel (Author), Bastien Redon (Author), Amandine Scocard (Author), Meryl Malezieux (Author), Giovanni Marsicano (Author), Francis Chaouloff (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Anorexia nervosa (AN), mostly observed in female adolescents, is the most fatal mental illness. Its core is a motivational imbalance between exercise and feeding in favor of the former. The most privileged animal model of AN is the "activity-based anorexia" (ABA) model wherein partly starv...