ReviewJournal of psychiatric research2013
Visual processing in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder: similarities, differences, and future research directions.
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- Structural and functional brain alterations in anorexia nervosa:A multimodal meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Human brain mapping · 2021Pooled it
- Food deprivation disrupts normal holistic processing of domain-specific stimuli.Psychological research · 2020Trial
- Guidelines for visual cognitive rehabilitation of visual information processing disorders (2025).International journal of ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Sensing the Self: The Role of the Insula and Interoception in Body Image.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Visual body size estimation in adolescent anorexia nervosa: Behavioural and neurophysiological data suggest intact visual perception and biased emotional attention.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- The mediating effect of dysmorphic concern in the association between avoidant restrictive food intake disorder and suicidal ideation in adults.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Cytoarchitectonically Defined Volumes of Early Extrastriate Visual Cortex in Unmedicated Adults With Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Altered processing of conflicting body representations in women with restrictive anorexia nervosa.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Perception of frontal facial images compared with their mirror images: chirality, enantiomorphic discrimination, and relevance to clinical practice.Maxillofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2023Article
- Visual mapping of body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa reveals objective markers of illness severity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- 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
- Pragmatic Sensory Screening in Anorexia Nervosa and Associations with Autistic Traits.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Sex differences in own and other body perception.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Differentiating weight-restored anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder using neuroimaging and psychometric markers.PloS one · 2019Article
- Perceptual Not Attitudinal Factors Predict the Accuracy of Estimating Other Women's Bodies in Both Women With Anorexia Nervosa and Controls.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Longitudinal associations between psychotic experiences and disordered eating behaviours in adolescence: a UK population-based study.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2018Article
- New Body Scales Reveal Body Dissatisfaction, Thin-Ideal, and Muscularity-Ideal in Males.American journal of men's health · 2018Article
- Rapid Eye Movements in Sleep Furnish a Unique Probe Into Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
- New perspectives in the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder.F1000Research · 2018Review
- Body size estimation in women with anorexia nervosa and healthy controls using 3D avatars.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Anorexia nervosa (AN) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) are psychiatric disorders that involve distortion of the experience of one's physical appearance. In AN, individuals believe that they are overweight, perceive their body as "fat," and are preoccupied with maintaining a low body weight. In BDD, individuals are preoccupied with misperceived defects in physical appearance, most often of the face. Distorted visual perception may contribute to these cardinal symptoms, and may be a common underlying phenotype. This review surveys the current literature on visual processing in AN and BDD, addressing lower- to higher-order stages of visual information processing and perception. We focus on peer-reviewed studies of AN and BDD that address ophthalmologic abnormalities, basic neural processing of visual input, integration of visual input with other systems, neuropsychological tests of visual processing, and representations of whole percepts (such as images of faces, bodies, and other objects). The literature suggests a pattern in both groups of over-attention to detail, reduced processing of global features, and a tendency to focus on symptom-specific details in their own images (body parts in AN, facial features in BDD), with cognitive strategy at least partially mediating the abnormalities. Visuospatial abnormalities were also evident when viewing images of others and for non-appearance related stimuli. Unfortunately no study has directly compared AN and BDD, and most studies were not designed to disentangle disease-related emotional responses from lower-order visual processing. We make recommendations for future studies to improve the understanding of visual processing abnormalities in AN and BDD.
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