Dr. Frank Epling's Psychoquium Talk Abstract
February 1996
When rats are fed one meal a day and allowed (not required) to run on an activity wheel, they run excessively, stop eating and die of starvation. Convergent evidence from several different research areas, indicates that the behavior of these animals and human anorexic patients is in many cases functionally similar. Research supporting this contention is presented and a biobehavioral theory of activity anorexia is detailed.
Dr. Epling is a professor in the Deprtment of Psychology at the University of Alberta.
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