Kate Tchanturia

..Decision making is impaired in female patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), but it is unclear if the same impairment is present in male patients with AN...

..Small scale studies point to difficulties with cognitive set-shifting as a basis. Using larger scale studies will lend robustness to these data...

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..The purpose of this review was to systematically appraise the research into reported IQ levels in people with anorexia nervosa...

..This is in keeping with observations of similarities between the disorders...

..Patients with eating disorders favor immediate gratification and ignore long-term negative consequences. This study investigated decision making in bulimia nervosa using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and skin conductance responses (SCR)...

..These findings support current explanatory models of both AN and CFS, and suggest that emotional processing should be addressed in the assessment and treatment of individuals with these illnesses...

..To use an experimental paradigm to assess facial expression, subjective experience of emotion and the relationship between them in people with anorexia nervosa (AN)...

..In sum, poor set-shifting is a transdiagnostic feature related to aspects of the illness but not to malnutrition. In part it is a familial trait, and is likely involved in the maintenance of the illness...

..However, there are no direct comparison studies. This study aimed to compare the cognitive profile of AN against published ASD data on tasks measuring empathy, executive function and central coherence...

..We suggest using the cognitive rigidity and attention to detail subscales independently to give a rough approximation of these two aspects of cognitive style as they manifest in the context of everyday life...

..This supports the hypothesis that individuals with anorexia have a positive bias toward local detail processing, indicative of weak central coherence...

..Neither of these features are found in recovered AN. The association between impaired decision making ability and a decreased autonomic response is consistent with the predictions of the Somatic Marker Hypothesis...

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..The potential utility of this measure in future retrospective and prospective research studies is highlighted...

..These results are indicative of weak coherence. The finding that weak coherence is a stable characteristic rather than a state effect suggests that it may be an endophenotype for ED...

..This study aims to explore how patients with AN recognize happiness and sadness in human faces, controlling for different comorbidities, namely anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms...

..Women with eating disorders (EDs) are reported to have strengths in local or detailed information processing and difficulties with coherence or global processing/integration...

..It is uncertain whether these deficits result from starvation and to what extent they might be reversed by weight gain alone. These deficits may need to be targeted in treatment...

..This study aimed to examine these factors in a group of women following long-term recovery from AN...

..More detailed information about the components of ToM and the ToM difficulties demonstrated in AN sufferers may inform our understanding of the disorder as well as future social-cognitive based treatments...

..To examine central coherence (local and global processing) in women with anorexia nervosa (AN)...

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..The findings support models of AN which suggest that difficulties with emotional processing, particularly around anger are associated with AN. Future work could explore these initial findings in a larger sample...

..Flexibility is an important clinical characteristic in AN. The results suggest that self-report and behavioral measures can be complementary, but cannot be used as an alternative to one another...

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..categorical). It is recommended that the OCI-R be employed as the self-report instrument of choice for assessing obsessive-compulsive pathology in those with AN...

..PsycINFO, Medline, and Web of Science databases were searched to December 2005. Hand searching of eating-disorder journals and relevant reference sections was also undertaken...

..It is hoped that this study will help understanding of how CRT can be used as a treatment for AN; and how it could be developed for future work with young people...

..The short nature and promising results of this intervention make it an attractive addition to current treatment programmes...

..We have demonstrated this approach using our neuropsychological studies of cognitive flexibility in anorexia nervosa (AN)...

..Finally, a discussion of potential future directions in research using the tools of neurocognitive assessment, imaging and treatment research is provided...

..This study aims to evaluate a novel and brief skills-based therapy for in-patients with anorexia nervosa, which addressed 'cold' and 'hot' cognition...

..The aim of this study was to examine service users' experiences of participating in CRT...

..There is debate as to whether eating disorders may be culture-bound. However, accumulating evidence suggests that eating disorders may be found outside of the West, although the precise form of the eating disorder may differ...

..These findings suggest that differential neuropsychological disturbance in the domain of mental flexibility/rigidity may underlie the spectrum of eating disorders...