Person is less engaged than previously with friends, family, job, and other activities.
Some symptoms overlap with obsessive-compulsive and addictive disorders.
Nor do they vomit, abuse laxatives, or engage in other pathological weight-loss behaviors. They had normal relationships with food before the brain injury. Cognitive, behavioral, and motor impairments are common, probably also related to the brain injury. People are not particularly troubled by their new consuming interest. Treatment should begin with a neurologist or possibly a psychiatrist.