ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2013
Selective cognitive empathy deficit in adolescents with restrictive anorexia nervosa.
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- Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition.Molecular psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
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- Anorexia Nervosa and Emotional Dysregulation: A Longitudinal Study on the Characteristics and Clinical Implications in a Group of Female Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Impairments in personality functioning in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Emotional reactivity and prosocial behaviour in response to witnessing social exclusion in adolescents with eating disorders and healthy controls.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Measures of empathy in children and adolescents: A systematic review of questionnaires.World journal of psychiatry · 2021Article
- Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder and autistic traits in children with anorexia nervosa and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2021Article
- Emotional intelligence, empathy and alexithymia in anorexia nervosa during adolescence.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Literature Review of Cognitive Neuroscience and Anorexia Nervosa.Current psychiatry reports · 2016Review
- The impact of internalizing symptoms on autistic traits in adolescents with restrictive anorexia nervosa.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundA growing, but conflicting body of literature suggests altered empathic abilities in subjects with anorexia nervosa-restricting type (AN-R). This study aims to characterize the cognitive and affective empathic profiles of adolescents with purely AN-R.
methodsAs part of a standardized clinical and research protocol, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a valid and reliable self-reported instrument to measure empathy, was administered to 32 female adolescents with AN-R and in 41 healthy controls (HC) comparisons, matched for age and gender. Correlational analyses were performed to evaluate the links between empathy scores and psychopathological measures.
resultsPatients scored significantly lower than HC on cognitive empathy (CE), while they did not differ from controls on affective empathy (AE). The deficit in CE was not related to either disease severity nor was it related to associated psychopathology.
conclusionThese results, albeit preliminary, suggest that a dysfunctional pattern of CE capacity may be a stable trait of AN-R that should be taken into account not only for the clinical management, but also in preventive and therapeutic intervention.
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