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Executive functions profile in extreme eating/weight conditions: from anorexia nervosa to obesity.
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93 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Altered value-based decision-making in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- The cerebellum plays more than one role in the dysregulation of appetite: Review of structural evidence from typical and eating disorder populations.Brain and behavior · 2023Pooled it
- The Executive Functions in Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Neuropsychological Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Questionnaire and behavioral task measures of impulsivity are differentially associated with body mass index: A comprehensive meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
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- Manualised Cognitive Remediation Therapy for adult obesity: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.Trials · 2014Trial
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- The association between Weight-adjusted-Waist Index (WWI) and cognitive function in older adults: a cross-sectional NHANES 2011-2014 study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Association of Overweight and Obesity with Impaired Executive Functioning in Mexican Adolescents: The Importance of Inhibitory Control.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prospective associations between cognitive flexibility and eating disorder symptoms in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.Psychiatry research · 2024Article
- No relations between executive functions and dimensional models of psychopathology or is time the missing link?PloS one · 2024Article
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- Anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol baseline plasma concentrations and their clinical correlate in gambling disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- Presurgical microstructural coherence predicts cognitive change for bariatric surgery patients.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Observational
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Abstract
backgroundExtreme weight conditions (EWC) groups along a continuum may share some biological risk factors and intermediate neurocognitive phenotypes. A core cognitive trait in EWC appears to be executive dysfunction, with a focus on decision making, response inhibition and cognitive flexibility. Differences between individuals in these areas are likely to contribute to the differences in vulnerability to EWC. The aim of the study was to investigate whether there is a common pattern of executive dysfunction in EWC while comparing anorexia nervosa patients (AN), obese subjects (OB) and healthy eating/weight controls (HC).
methodsThirty five AN patients, fifty two OB and one hundred thirty seven HC were compared using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST); Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT); and Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). All participants were female, aged between 18 and 60 years.
resultsThere was a significant difference in IGT score (F(1.79); p<.001), with AN and OB groups showing the poorest performance compared to HC. On the WCST, AN and OB made significantly more errors than controls (F(25.73); p<.001), and had significantly fewer correct responses (F(2.71); p<.001). Post hoc analysis revealed that the two clinical groups were not significantly different from each other. Finally, OB showed a significant reduced performance in the inhibition response measured with the Stroop test (F(5.11); p<.001) compared with both AN and HC.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that EWC subjects (namely AN and OB) have similar dysfunctional executive profile that may play a role in the development and maintenance of such disorders.
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