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ArticleEating behaviors2013

Interoceptive sensitivity deficits in women recovered from bulimia nervosa.

Megan Klabunde, Dean T Acheson, Kerri N Boutelle, Scott C Matthews, Walter H Kaye

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Article in Eating behaviors, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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50 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Megan KlabundeDepartment of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States. Electronic address: mklabund@stanford.edu.
Dean T Acheson
Kerri N Boutelle
Scott C Matthews
Walter H Kaye
University of California, San Diego · USStanford University · US

Funding

University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR000005 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI REIS, STEVEN E · 2012 to 2015
$50.8M
Neurobiology of Feeding &Other Behaviors in BulimiaR01MH042984 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KAYE, WALTER H · 1988 to 2013
$6.3M
Monoamine Contributions to Neurocircuitry in Eating DisordersR01MH092793 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BAILER, URSULA FRANZISKA, KAYE, WALTER H · 2011 to 2015
$3.6M
Parents as the Agent of Change for Childhood ObesityR01DK075861 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BOUTELLE, KERRI N · 2010 to 2014
$3.0M
Family Therapy in the Treatment of Adolescent Anorexia NervosaU01MH076286 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KAYE, WALTER H · 2006 to 2010
$917k
The treatment of childhood obesityK02HL112042 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BOUTELLE, KERRI N · 2012 to 2014
$321k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000005NHLBI NIH HHS K02 HL112042NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK075861NIMH NIH HHS 5U01MH76286NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH042984NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH092793NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH076286
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self-report studies suggest that patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) evidence difficulties with interoceptive awareness. Indeed, interoceptive deficits may persist after recovery of BN and may be a biological trait that predisposes symptom development in BN. However, no studies to date have directly assessed interoceptive sensitivity, or accuracy in detecting and perceiving internal body cues, in patients with or recovered from BN. Nine women who had recovered from BN and 10 healthy control women completed the Heart Beat Perception Task (HBPT) in which individuals were required to estimate the number of heartbeats between intervals of time. Accuracy scores were compared between groups. Significant differences were found between the groups on the HBPT ((F1,19) = 7.78, p = .013, Cohen's d = 1.16) when controlling for age. These results suggest that deficits in interoceptive sensitivity are present in individuals recovered from BN. Thus interoceptive deficits may be one factor that bridges the gap between brain dysfunction and symptom presentation in BN.

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AwarenessHeart RatePerceptionAdolescentAdultBulimia NervosaCase-Control StudiesFemaleHumansMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsSelf ReportYoung AdultBiologicalEating disordersHeart Beat Perception TaskNeurobiologyPhysiology

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PMID24183142
PMCPMC3817494
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