Spinning out of control: A personalized prediction model for binging behavior in eating and alcohol disorders. KU Leuven
It is difficult to understand what drives psychiatric patients into acratic behaviors such as binge drinking or extreme food choices, causing serious self-harm, permanent impairment and occasionally death. Increase in stress is known to trigger binging behavior. In this study, we hypothesize that under stressful circumstances, biological mechanisms originating in the brain and body trigger problematic loss of control and abnormal incentive ...