ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2017
Cognitive flexibility and decision-making in eating disorders and obesity.
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- Altered value-based decision-making in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Disinhibited Eating and Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Is set-shifting and central coherence in anorexia nervosa influenced by body mass index, anxiety or depression? A systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The Executive Functions in Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Neuropsychological Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Oxytocin Administration Increases Proactive Control in Men with Overweight or Obesity: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2021Trial
- Associations between adult ADHD core symptoms, cognitive flexibility, and emotional eating: a case-control study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Weight Loss After Obesity Disrupts Cognitive Flexibility Through Reinforcement Learning Strategies.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Article
- Neurocognitive impairments in eating disorders patients with and without comorbid food addiction.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Endogenous opioid receptors and the feast or famine of maladaptive feeding.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Psychoneurological Links Contributing to Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Severity.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Early adaptive schemas, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility in eating disorders: subtype specific predictors of eating disorder symptoms using hierarchical linear regression.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Operant Training for Highly Palatable Food Alters Translating Messenger RNA in Nucleus Accumbens DBiological psychiatry · 2024Article
- The importance of improving cognitive flexibility in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: The case for cognitive remediation therapy.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as a potential treatment for eating disorders: a narrative review of preliminary evidence.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy · 2024Review
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- Childhood hyperactivity, eating behaviours, and executive functions: Their association with the development of eating-disorder symptoms in adolescence.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Cognitive flexibility and DSM-5 severity criteria for eating disorders: assessing drive for thinness and duration of illness as alternative severity variables.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Cognitive flexibility and emotional self-regulation of the elderly with Empty nest syndrome: Benefits of acceptance and commitment therapy.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Cognitive Flexibility in Hospitalized Patients with Severe or Extreme Anorexia Nervosa: A Case-Control Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Factor structure of the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire in an eating disorder sample.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of the present study was to compare decision-making and cognitive flexibility in patients with disordered eating and weight, ranging from anorexia nervosa to obesity, and a healthy group.
methodParticipants were 113 patients (86 with eating disorders and 27 with obesity), and a group of 39 healthy subjects; all completed the Iowa gambling task, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and several clinical self-report measures.
resultsEating disordered and obese patients showed impaired performance on the decision-making task, and the obese group showed the worst performance on the set-shifting task. There were no associations between neuropsychological performance and eating or obsessive symptomatology, although significant associations were found with anxiety and depression measures. DISCUSSION: Considering the executive functions as a transdiagnostic process in ED and obesity could provide explanations for the inability to regulate food intake, present in both ED and obese patients. Implications of these executive impairments in the development and maintenance of ED and obesity are discussed.
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