A Probable Culture‐Specific Disorder of Pathological Weight Gain: Psychocultural Inversion of Anorexia Nervosa in Southern Morocco, Mauritania, and the Sahel

Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice · Published 2026-07-09 · DOI 10.1176/appi.prcp.20250138

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Mounir Jaafari, Abdi Cheikh Mohamed Fadel, Ahmed Gourani, Rachid Aalouane, Ismail Rammouz

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2026

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Jaafari, M., Fadel, A., Gourani, A., et al. (2026). A Probable Culture‐Specific Disorder of Pathological Weight Gain: Psychocultural Inversion of Anorexia Nervosa in Southern Morocco, Mauritania, and the Sahel. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.prcp.20250138

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