The Importance of Habits in Eating Disorders

Habits are formed when you have repeated associations between a contextual stimuli at the time of behavior. But eventually what happens is the exposure to the stimuli becomes sufficient to drive the behavior so you don't actually need the reward. Almost like Pavlov's situation. So as we start to see these habit pathways formed in something that's a little bit easier to study like eating disorders, I think it's going to open up a lot of fascinating scientific areas. It's going to help people heal and recover. Like I think we can have more empathy for people as they go through this stuff.

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