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Impulsivity in binge eating disorder: food cues elicit increased reward responses and disinhibition.
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- Food-Related Attentional Biases in Restrained Eaters: A Meta-Analysis.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Impulsivity and compulsivity in binge eating disorder: A systematic review of behavioral studies.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- Food-Related Impulsivity in Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder-A Systematic Update of the Evidence.Nutrients · 2017Pooled 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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- Neural Responses to Auditory Food Stimuli Following Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Binge-Eating Disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Trial
- Behavioural biases in the interaction with food objects in virtual reality and its clinical implication for binge eating disorder.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Trial
- Combined antisaccade task and transcranial direct current stimulation to increase response inhibition in binge eating disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Trial
- Diminished prefrontal cortex activation in patients with binge eating disorder associates with trait impulsivity and improves after impulsivity-focused treatment based on a randomized controlled IMPULS trial.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Trial
- Effects of a food-specific inhibition training in individuals with binge eating disorder-findings from a randomized controlled proof-of-concept study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2017Trial
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- Impaired Early-Response Inhibition in Overweight Females with and without Binge Eating Disorder.PloS one · 2015Trial
- Dysregulated eating behaviour and microbiota-based interventions targeting eating disorders and food addiction.Gut microbes · 2026Review
- Distractor effect of food stimuli among patients with binge eating behaviour - a narrative review and pilot data.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Profiling decision-making mechanisms in binge eating disorder.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Prefrontal Cortex Recruitment to Food Stimuli Differs in Overweight/Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) and inhibitory control training to reduce binge eating: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Be-Nemoic).Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Multimodal machine learning reveals neurobiological signatures of binge-type eating disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sex and age effects on binge eating spectrum disorders in young adults: a path analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundBinge eating disorder (BED) represents a distinct eating disorder diagnosis. Current approaches assume increased impulsivity to be one factor leading to binge eating and weight gain. We used eye tracking to investigate both components of impulsivity, namely reward sensitivity and rash-spontaneous behaviour towards food in BED for the first time.
methodsOverweight and obese people with BED (BED+; n = 25), without BED (BED-; n = 26) and healthy normal-weight controls (NWC; n = 25) performed a free exploration paradigm measuring reward sensitivity (experiment 1) and a modified antisaccade paradigm measuring disinhibited, rash-spontaneous behaviour (experiment 2) using food and nonfood stimuli. Additionally, trait impulsivity was assessed.
resultsIn experiment 1, all participants located their initial fixations more often on food stimuli and BED+ participants gazed longer on food stimuli in comparison with BED- and NWC participants. In experiment 2, BED+ participants had more difficulties inhibiting saccades towards food and nonfood stimuli compared with both other groups in first saccades, and especially towards food stimuli in second saccades and concerning sequences of first and second saccades. BED- participants did not differ significantly from NWC participants in both experiments. Additionally, eye tracking performance was associated with self-reported reward responsiveness and self-control.
conclusionsAccording to these results, food-related reward sensitivity and rash-spontaneous behaviour, as the two components of impulsivity, are increased in BED in comparison with weight-matched and normal-weight controls. This indicates that BED represents a neurobehavioural phenotype of obesity that is characterised by increased impulsivity. Interventions for BED should target these special needs of affected patients.
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