Beauty and the beast: Psychobiologic and evolutionary perspectives on body dysmorphic disorder
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2006
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Stein D.J.
Carey P.D.
Warwick J.
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by preoccupation with a defect in appearance. Concepts of beauty play a particularly crucial role in humans' mental and social life, and may have specific psychobiologic and evolutionary underpinnings. In particular, there is a growing literature on the neurocircuitry underpinning the body schema, body image and facial expression processing, and aesthetic and symmetry judgments. Speculatively, disruptions in cognitive-affective processes relevant to judgments about physical beauty lead to BDD.
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dopamine, psychedelic agent, serotonin, serotonin uptake inhibitor, adult, affect, article, behavior therapy, body dysmorphic disorder, body image, brain atrophy, case report, clinical trial, cognition, cognitive therapy, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, environmental factor, evolution, human, interview, male, meta analysis, patient referral, physical attractiveness, plastic surgery, priority journal, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatrist, psychobiology, psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, self concept, single photon emission computer tomography, somatoform disorder, systematic review, treatment outcome, Adult, Atrophy, Beauty, Brain, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Evolution, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors, Somatoform Disorders, Space Perception, Temporal Lobe, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon, Visual Perception
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