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A reduced pain sensitivity has been found in eating disorder patients, but it is unclear what physiological and psychological factors are associated with this abnormality. The underlying mechanism seems non-opioid. Some authors propose a hypothesis that the decrease of the susceptibility to pain in lean subjects/animals may be induced by the increase in endogenous ghrelin activity, or increase of the susceptibility to pain in obese subject/animals may be induced by the decrease in endogenous ghrelin activity.
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Strumia, R. (2013). Pain Sensitivity in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. In: Strumia, R. (eds) Eating Disorders and the Skin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29136-4_20
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