Feusner is now enrolling patients with anorexia nervosa to study whether they also process visual information in a distorted way, to compare them with BDD patients.

Further an estimated 6-8 percent of women experience an eating disorder with binge eating and bulimia nervosa being the most common followed by anorexia and other disorders.

The patients were randomly assigned to one of two treatments, either traditional individual-based anorexia nervosa therapy or family-based treatment.