Publications by authors named "U N Danner"
Objective: Individuals with anorexia nervosa persistently restrict their food intake while often severely underweight. This maladaptive food choice behavior and related decision-making processes have mainly been investigated in adults. It is unknown whether the same decision-making processes drive food choices in adolescents, given their more favorable treatment outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWATSU (Water-Shiatsu) increases body awareness and improves pain and mood: A randomised controlled study.
Complement Ther Clin Pract
November 2024
Background And Purpose: WATSU (Water-Shiatsu) is a body-oriented therapy in warm-water pool with passive movements, massage and breathing techniques. The present study investigated the short-term effect of a single session of WATSU on body awareness.
Materials And Methods: In a randomized-controlled study 60 volunteers (18-65 years) were assigned to a 20-min intervention of WATSU or to a 20-min lecture on WATSU.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how gut microbiota from patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) affects anxiety, cognitive flexibility, and dopamine signaling in rats through fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT).
- Results showed no significant changes in cognition or dopamine activity after receiving microbiota from AN patients compared to controls, although antibiotic treatment lowered task engagement in the rats.
- The findings suggest that while AN-associated gut microbiota may not directly influence cognitive flexibility, the limitations of the FMT methods used indicate a need for better experimental protocols in future research.
Article Synopsis
- The study wanted to see if feeling good (psychosocial well-being) or being impulsive about emotions is better at helping teens choose healthier foods.
- Researchers looked at data from over 2,000 European teens, asking about their food choices and feelings.
- They found that working on controlling impulsive feelings might help teens eat less sugary and fatty foods more than just focusing on feeling good.
Purpose Of Review: Autistic women struggle with high levels of both autistic eating behaviours and disordered eating behaviours , which might make them particularly vulnerable to develop eating disorders. Research investigating the presence and characteristics of eating disorders in autistic women is however limited, as is research examining the role of autism in the treatment and recovery of an eating disorder in autistic women.
Recent Findings: The link between autism and eating disorders has mainly been investigated from the field of eating disorder research, with studies finding an overrepresentation of autism or autistic traits in eating disorders populations.