Bencherif and colleagues (2005 ) used brain MRI to study hormone secretion in eating disordered patients. They found that:
a) Patients with bulimia have high levels of endogenous opioid beta-endorphin.
b) Patients with bulimia have high levels of aldosterone alpha-endorphin.
c) Patients with bulimia have increased chorionic gonadotropin, indicating that thyroxine could not bind to the transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptors.
d) Patients with bulimia have decreased regional mu-opioid receptor binding in the insular cortex.
Question 2
In the first study of its kind, Canadian researcher Woogh (2001 ) did a case registry analysis of patients with schizophrenia and found that in-patient prevalence rates _________ while outpatient rates _________ between 1986 and 1996.
a) substantially decreased; remained the same
b) substantially increased; remained the same
c) remained the same; substantially increased
d) substantially decreased; increased somewhat