ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2014
Impairment in local and global processing and set-shifting in body dysmorphic disorder.
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- A systematic review of neurocognition and social cognition in body dysmorphic disorder.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy vs. supportive psychotherapy in body dysmorphic disorder: An exploratory mediation analysis.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
- Visual Perceptual Processing Abnormalities in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Single-dose psilocybin alters resting state functional networks in patients with body dysmorphic disorder.Psychedelics · 2025Article
- Body dysmorphic disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024Review
- Advancing Psychosocial Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A State-of-the-Science Review.Behavior therapy · 2024Review
- Anosognosia in hoarding disorder is predicted by alterations in cognitive and inhibitory control.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Epidemiology of body dysmorphic disorder among adolescents: A study of their cognitive functions.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Visual training program for body dysmorphic disorder: protocol for a novel intervention pilot and feasibility trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2018Article
- Appearance evaluation of others' faces and bodies in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
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- Anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder are associated with abnormalities in processing visual information.Psychological medicine · 2015Article
- Aberrant early visual neural activity and brain-behavior relationships in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Brain structural correlates of subclinical body dysmorphic symptoms: a gender-informed approach.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNArticle
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Abstract
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by distressing and often debilitating preoccupations with misperceived defects in appearance. Research suggests that aberrant visual processing may contribute to these misperceptions. This study used two tasks to probe global and local visual processing as well as set-shifting in individuals with BDD. Eighteen unmedicated individuals with BDD and 17 non-clinical controls completed two global-local tasks. The embedded figures task requires participants to determine which of three complex figures contains a simpler figure embedded within it. The Navon task utilizes incongruent stimuli comprised of a large letter (global level) made up of smaller letters (local level). The outcome measures were response time and accuracy rate. On the embedded figures task, BDD individuals were slower and less accurate than controls. On the Navon task, BDD individuals processed both global and local stimuli slower and less accurately than controls, and there was a further decrement in performance when shifting attention between the different levels of stimuli. Worse insight correlated with poorer performance on both tasks. Taken together, these results suggest abnormal global and local processing for non-appearance related stimuli among BDD individuals, in addition to evidence of poor set-shifting abilities. Moreover, these abnormalities appear to relate to the important clinical variable of poor insight. Further research is needed to explore these abnormalities and elucidate their possible role in the development and/or persistence of BDD symptoms.
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