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Inhibitory control in bulimic-type eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-analysis of variance in tDCS effects on response inhibition.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Neural correlates associated with processing food stimuli in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of fMRI studies.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- The Role of Serious Video Games in the Treatment of Disordered Eating Behaviors: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- How Does Fasting Affect Cognition? An Updated Systematic Review (2013-2020).Current nutrition reports · 2021Pooled it
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- Scrutinizing Domains of Executive Function in Binge Eating Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic Review: Overlap Between Eating, Autism Spectrum, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of reviews of neurocognitive functioning in eating disorders: The state-of-the-literature and future directions.The International journal of eating disorders · 2018Pooled it
- Rumination and eating disorder psychopathology: A meta-analysis.Clinical psychology review · 2018Pooled it
- Transdiagnostic Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Patients with Eating Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2025Trial
- Bulimia nervosa.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Aberrant large- and mesoscale network segregation and integration in bulimia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Distractor effect of food stimuli among patients with binge eating behaviour - a narrative review and pilot data.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Expressive Suppression of Emotions in Bulimia Nervosa: An Electroencephalography Study.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between proactive inhibition and restrictive eating behaviours in severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN).Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation and Associations With Disordered Eating During Preadolescence.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Behaviourally assessed negative urgency is uniquely associated with binge-eating frequency.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Reward and Inhibitory Control as Mechanisms and Treatment Targets for Binge Eating Disorder.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Performing well but not appreciating it - A trait feature of anorexia nervosa.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Microbiota-gut-brain axis in binge-eating disorder: Towards microbiome-based therapies.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
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Abstract
The aim of this meta-analysis was to summarise data from neuropsychological studies on inhibitory control to general and disease-salient (i.e., food/eating, body/shape) stimuli in bulimic-type eating disorders (EDs). A systematic literature search was conducted to identify eligible experimental studies. The outcome measures studied included the performance on established inhibitory control tasks in bulimic-type EDs. Effect sizes (Hedges' g) were pooled using random-effects models. For inhibitory control to general stimuli, 24 studies were included with a total of 563 bulimic-type ED patients: 439 had bulimia nervosa (BN), 42 had anorexia nervosa of the binge/purge subtype (AN-b), and 82 had binge eating disorder (BED). With respect to inhibitory control to disease-salient stimuli, 12 studies were included, representing a total of 218 BN patients. A meta-analysis of these studies showed decreased inhibitory control to general stimuli in bulimic-type EDs (g = -0.32). Subgroup analysis revealed impairments with a large effect in the AN-b group (g = -0.91), impairments with a small effect in the BN group (g = -0.26), and a non-significant effect in the BED group (g = -0.16). Greater impairments in inhibitory control were observed in BN patients when confronted with disease-salient stimuli (food/eating: g = -0.67; body/shape: g = -0.61). In conclusion, bulimic-type EDs showed impairments in inhibitory control to general stimuli with a small effect size. There was a significantly larger impairment in inhibitory control to disease salient stimuli observed in BN patients, constituting a medium effect size.
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