Mercè Correa, lecturer of Psychobiology at the UJI, participates in a congress on the alterations produced by anorexia in the brain



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## Mercè Correa, lecturer of Psychobiology at the UJI, participates in a congress on the alterations produced by anorexia in the brain

13/03/2017 |
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Mercè Correa Sanz, lecturer of Psychobiology and director of the UJI Doctorate School, has participated this week in the congress "Regulation of the appetite and anorexia". The congress has been organised by the Valencian Foundation for Advanced Studies and the University Cardenal Herrera-CEU with the collaboration of Generalitat Valenciana.

Mercè Correa, head of the research group "Neuropharmacology and Genetics of Motivated Behaviour", delivered a lecture entitled "The mesolimbic system and the regulation of motivation for food", where she commented that people with anorexia have alterations localised in the accumbens nucleus in the brain, which imply an increased sensitivity of the receptors for the neurotransmitter dopamine, related to severe food restrictions.

This increased sensitivity results in certain symptoms, such as excessive alertness to food-related stimuli and body image, and excessive physical exercise (vigorexia) as a way of staying lean. Correa is the author of more than 90 international publications. She is collaborating in research groups in the United States and Italy, and has tutored the presentation of a dozen doctoral theses at the universities of Connecticut and Universitat Jaume I.

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