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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



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

Right on time. Thanks a bunch.





 

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