A recent study by Columbia University found that women with bulimia nervosa (bulimia) exhibited different patterns of brain activity compared to healthy women while completing a task that involved self-regulation. Researchers believe that these abnormal patterns may be linked to other impulsive behaviors related to eating disorders.

The study was published in the January 2009 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers assessed the self-regulatory brain processes of 20 women with bulimia and 20 women without an eating disorder. Researchers found that women with bulimia tended toward more impulsive responses to certain stimuli. In general, they responded to tasks more quickly and made a greater number of errors. Researchers believe that impulse control problems may be fundamentally linked to the development of eating disorders.

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