Is BDD a brain disease?

Is BDD a brain disease?

Jamie Feusner (Psychiatrist, Professor, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: What causes BDD?; Is BDD a brain disease?; What do MRI images tell us about the brains of people with BDD? and more...

Yes, it could be a brain disease. We've seen that there have been some cases of people that actually can develop BDD symptoms from brain injuries in certain regions of the brain. Some neuro-imaging studies have found that there are abnormalities in some parts of the brain -- the basal ganglia, it's called. Also, there's some research that I have done that has looked at visual processing, and there seems to be some abnormalities in visual processing of faces, as well. So there could be partly a brain-based problem here.