Women ( mean age : 26.8years:SD8.4 years, all right-handers according to the Oldfield handedness scale [17] who met the criteria for AN as defined by the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [2] participate in this study. The patients had mean body mass index (BMI) of 16.0kg/m2 :SD-13) mean disease duration was 5.5 years (SD-5)(see table 1)
15 female healthy controls without history of neurological or psychiatric dis-eases and mean age of 29.5 years (SD-8.2)and a mean BMI of 22kg/m2 (SD – 2.1) served as a control group (see Table 1)