Too Fat to Fit through the Door: First Evidence for Disturbed Body-Scaled Action in Anorexia Nervosa during Locomotion

Anouk Keizer; Monique A. M. Smeets; H. Chris Dijkerman; Siarhei A. Uzunbajakau; Annemarie van Elburg; Albert Postma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064602

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Too Fat to Fit through the Door: First Evidence for Disturbed Body-Scaled Action in Anorexia Nervosa during Locomotion

Anouk Keizer ,

* E-mail: A.Keizer@uu.nl

Affiliation Experimental Psychology/Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Monique A. M. Smeets,

Affiliation Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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H. Chris Dijkerman,

Affiliations Experimental Psychology/Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Siarhei A. Uzunbajakau,

Affiliation Experimental Psychology/Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Annemarie van Elburg,

Affiliation Eating Disorders Rintveld, Altrecht, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Albert Postma

Affiliations Experimental Psychology/Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Too Fat to Fit through the Door: First Evidence for Disturbed Body-Scaled Action in Anorexia Nervosa during Locomotion

Anouk Keizer,
Monique A. M. Smeets,
H. Chris Dijkerman,
Siarhei A. Uzunbajakau,
Annemarie van Elburg,
Albert Postma

Published: May 29, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064602

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Anorexia Nervosa - It's in the name: nervous or anxious

Posted by Dave_Rove on 14 Jun 2013 at 05:56 GMT

Frail, nervous people. Wouldn't you expect them to be nervous about scraping their shoulders for example? It seem to me that this would be of greater significance than misjudged body image.

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Anorexia Nervosa - It's in the name: nervous or anxious

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