Healthy controls and AN patients were comparable with respect to their age (t = -0.89: P>0.05) Due to the nature of the disorder. Participants with AN displayed significantly lower BMI compared to healthy controls (t=-8.5, P< 0.001).
All subjects gave written consent before the structural scans were acquired. The study was approved by the local ethic committee of the medical faculty of the Ruhr-University of Bochum