ArticlePsychiatry research2012
Nonlinear relationships between anxiety and visual processing of own and others' faces in body dysmorphic disorder.
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- Effective connectivity in cortical and subcortical visual fear processing networks during fearful face viewing in body dysmorphic disorder.Research square · 2026Article
- The Occipital-Fronto-Limbic Circuit of Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Visual Perceptual Processing Abnormalities in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Visual system structural and functional connections during face viewing in body dysmorphic disorder.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Folie et Société: eroding the body-mind relationship via dysfunctional paternalistic systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Neural and behavioral effects of modification of visual attention in body dysmorphic disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Dynamic Effective Connectivity Patterns During Rapid Face Stimuli Presentation in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Brain activation and connectivity in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder when viewing bodies: relationships to clinical symptoms and perception of appearance.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Article
- Multivariate resting-state functional connectivity predicts response to cognitive behavioral therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Appearance evaluation of others' faces and bodies in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
- Comparison of visual perceptual organization in schizophrenia and body dysmorphic disorder.Psychiatry research · 2015Article
- Cortical thickness and brain volumetric analysis in body dysmorphic disorder.Psychiatry research · 2015Article
- Visual processing in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder: similarities, differences, and future research directions.Journal of psychiatric research · 2013Review
- Brain structural correlates of subclinical body dysmorphic symptoms: a gender-informed approach.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNArticle
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Abstract
Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) often experience anxiety, as well as perceptual distortions of appearance. Anxiety has previously been found to impact visual processing. This study therefore tested the relationship between anxiety and visual processing of faces in BDD. Medication-free participants with BDD (N=17) and healthy controls (N=16) viewed photographs of their face and a familiar face during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Blood-oxygen-level dependent signal changes in regions involved in anxiety (amygdala) and detailed visual processing (ventral visual stream-VVS) were regressed on anxiety scores. Significant linear relationships between activity in the amygdala and VVS were found in both healthy controls and individuals with BDD. There was a trend of a quadratic relationship between anxiety and activity in the right VVS and a linear relationship between anxiety and activity in the left VVS for the BDD sample, and this was stronger for own-face stimuli versus familiar-face. Results suggest that anxiety symptoms in BDD may be associated with activity in systems responsible for detailed visual processing. This may have clinical implications related to heightened perceptual distortions associated with anxiety.
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