ArticlePsychological medicine2015
Functional connectivity for face processing in individuals with body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia nervosa.
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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
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- The discrepancy between the self-assessment of facial size and shape and morphometric facial analysis in young female patients with anorexia nervosa.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2025Article
- Perceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Single-dose psilocybin alters resting state functional networks in patients with body dysmorphic disorder.Psychedelics · 2025Article
- Visual system structural and functional connections during face viewing in body dysmorphic disorder.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Learning of the same task subserved by substantially different mechanisms between patients with body dysmorphic disorder and healthy individuals.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Learning of the same task subserved by substantially different mechanisms between patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder and healthy individuals.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Neural and behavioral effects of modification of visual attention in body dysmorphic disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Dynamic Effective Connectivity Patterns During Rapid Face Stimuli Presentation in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The emotional face of anorexia nervosa: The neural correlates of emotional processing.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Visual mapping of body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa reveals objective markers of illness severity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Brain activation and connectivity in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder when viewing bodies: relationships to clinical symptoms and perception of appearance.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Article
- Evaluation of spontaneous regional brain activity in weight-recovered anorexia nervosa.Translational psychiatry · 2020Article
- Pharmacological Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Current neuropharmacology · 2019Review
- Differentiating weight-restored anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder using neuroimaging and psychometric markers.PloS one · 2019Article
- Aberrant Dynamic Connectivity for Fear Processing in Anorexia Nervosa and Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Processing and regulation of negative emotions in anorexia nervosa: An fMRI study.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundBody dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and anorexia nervosa (AN) are both characterized by distorted perception of appearance. Previous studies in BDD suggest abnormalities in visual processing of own and others' faces, but no study has examined visual processing of faces in AN, nor directly compared the two disorders in this respect.
methodWe collected functional magnetic resonance imaging data on 60 individuals of equivalent age and gender in each of three groups--20 BDD, 20 weight-restored AN, and 20 healthy controls (HC)--while they viewed images of others' faces that contained only high or low spatial frequency information (HSF or LSF). We tested hypotheses about functional connectivity within specialized sub-networks for HSF and LSF visual processing, using psychophysiological interaction analyses.
resultsThe BDD group demonstrated increased functional connectivity compared to HC between left anterior occipital face area and right fusiform face area (FFA) for LSF faces, which was associated with symptom severity. Both BDD and AN groups had increased connectivity compared to HC between FFA and precuneous/posterior cingulate gyrus for LSF faces, and decreased connectivity between FFA and insula. In addition, we found that LSF connectivity between FFA and posterior cingulate gyrus was significantly associated with thoughts about own appearance in AN.
conclusionsResults suggest similar abnormal functional connectivity within higher-order systems for face processing in BDD and AN, but distinct abnormal connectivity patterns within occipito-temporal visual networks. Findings may have implications for understanding relationships between these disorders, and the pathophysiology underlying perceptual distortions.
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