Trial reportEating and weight disorders : EWD2017
Effects of a food-specific inhibition training in individuals with binge eating disorder-findings from a randomized controlled proof-of-concept study.
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Changing Eating Behavior Using Cognitive Training: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Food-Related Impulsivity in Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder-A Systematic Update of the Evidence.Nutrients · 2017Pooled it
- Adding executive function training to cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating disorder: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Eating behaviors · 2023Trial
- The effects of response inhibition training following binge memory retrieval in young adults binge eaters: a randomised-controlled experimental study.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Combined antisaccade task and transcranial direct current stimulation to increase response inhibition in binge eating disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Trial
- Computerized neurocognitive training for improving dietary health and facilitating weight loss.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Trial
- Profiling decision-making mechanisms in binge eating disorder.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of an inhibitory control training to reduce binge eating behaviours: study protocol of the randomized controlled proof-of-principle MIND BINGES trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- TOWARD: a metabolic health intervention that improves food addiction and binge eating symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- A randomised controlled feasibility study of food-related computerised attention training versus mindfulness training and waiting-list control for adults with overweight or obesity: the FOCUS study.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Inhibitory control and its modification in spider phobia - Study protocol for an antisaccade training trial.PloS one · 2023Article
- A Behavioral and Event-Related Potentials Study of Food-Related Inhibitory Control in Probable Binge Eating Disorder.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Prone to food in bad mood-Emotion-potentiated food-cue reactivity in patients with binge-eating disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Binge eating disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022Article
- Ameliorating cognitive control in patients with binge eating disorder by electrical brain stimulation: study protocol of the randomized controlled ACCElect pilot trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Executive Functions of Adults with Binge-Eating Disorder: The Role of Weight Status and Psychopathology.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Current Intervention Treatments for Food Addiction: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
purposeImpulsivity might contribute to the development and maintenance of obesity and eating disorders. Patients suffering from binge eating disorder (BED) show an impulsive eating pattern characterized by regular binge eating episodes. Novel behavioral interventions increasing inhibitory control could improve eating behavior in BED. We piloted a novel food-specific inhibition training in individuals with BED.
methodsN = 22 BED patients according to SCID-I were randomly assigned to three sessions of a training or control condition. In both conditions, pictures of high-caloric food items were presented in peripheral vision on a computer screen while assessing gaze behavior. The training group had to suppress the urge to turn their gaze towards these pictures (i.e., to perform antisaccades). The control group was allowed to freely explore the pictures. We assessed self-reported food craving, food addiction, and wanting/liking of food pictures pre- and post-intervention.
resultsTwenty participants completed the study. The training proved to be feasible and acceptable. Patients of the training group significantly improved inhibitory control towards high-caloric food stimuli. Both groups reported a significantly lower number of binge eating episodes in the last four weeks after termination of the study. No changes were found in food craving, food addiction, liking, and wanting ratings.
conclusionsA food-specific inhibition training could be a useful element in the treatment of BED and other eating disorders; however, larger efficacy studies in patient samples are needed to investigate the efficacy of this and similar training approaches.
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