Trial reportPloS one2014
Improved planning abilities in binge eating.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- A multinational analysis of how emotions relate to economic decisions regarding time or risk.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic and methodological review of attentional biases in eating disorders: Food, body, and perfectionism.Brain and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- Delay Discounting as a Transdiagnostic Process in Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Unhealthy diets, obesity and time discounting: a systematic literature review and network analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2016Pooled it
- Intact delay discounting but more optimal reward-based decisions in anorexia nervosa during an experiential task.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Article
- Distractor effect of food stimuli among patients with binge eating behaviour - a narrative review and pilot data.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Non-invasive Ultrasonic Neuromodulation of the Human Nucleus Accumbens Impacts Reward Sensitivity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review on the Neurocognitive Profiles in Eating Disorders and Higher Weight Individuals: Insights for Targeted Interventions.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Reconsidering delay discounting in bulimia nervosa.Eating behaviors · 2021Article
- Goal Directed and Self-Control Systems in Bulimia Nervosa: An fMRI Study.EBioMedicine · 2018Article
- Questionnaire-Based Maladaptive Decision-Coping Patterns Involved in Binge Eating Among 1013 College Students.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Literature Review of Cognitive Neuroscience and Anorexia Nervosa.Current psychiatry reports · 2016Review
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- Preference for Safe Over Risky Options in Binge Eating.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
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9 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveThe role of planning in binge eating episodes is unknown. We investigated the characteristics of planning associated with food cues in binging patients. We studied planning based on backward reasoning, reasoning that determines a sequence of actions back to front from the final outcome.
methodA cross-sectional study was conducted with 20 healthy participants, 20 bulimia nervosa (BN), 22 restrictive (ANR) and 23 binging anorexia nervosa (ANB), without any concomitant impulsive disorder. In neutral/relaxing, binge food and stressful conditions, backward reasoning was assessed with the Race game, promotion of delayed large rewards with an intertemporal discounting task, attention with the Simon task, and repeating a dominant behavior with the Go/No-go task.
resultsBN and to a lower extent ANB patients succeeded more at the Race game in food than in neutral condition. This difference discriminated binging from non-binging participants. Backward reasoning in the food condition was associated with lower approach behavior toward food in BN patients, and higher food avoidance in ANB patients. Enhanced backward reasoning in the food condition related to preferences for delayed large rewards in BN patients. In BN and ANB patients the enhanced success rate at the Race game in the food condition was associated with higher attention paid to binge food.
conclusionThese findings introduce a novel process underlying binges: planning based on backward reasoning is associated with binges. It likely aims to reduce craving for binge foods and extend binge refractory period in BN patients, and avoid binging in ANB patients. Shifts between these goals might explain shifts between eating disorder subtypes.
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