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Female subjects
fat-body task
thin-body task
Amygdala
Insula
Prefrontal
cortex
Anterior cingulate
cortex
Male subjects
fat-body task
thin-body task
Occipital cortex
The areas in which activation was observed in women (prefrontal cortex,
amygdala, cingulate gyrus, insular cortex) are known to be associated with infor-
mation processing. Kurosaki et al. suggested the possibility that, with regard to
distorted images of one's own body, women perceive the images as informational
stimuli through complex cognitive processing, whereas men only perform simple
visual processing. These types of brain function mechanisms related to cognition of
one's own body are considered to be associated with gender differences in eating
disorder onset.
