ReviewCurrent neuropharmacology2018
Neural Network Alterations Across Eating Disorders: A Narrative Review of fMRI Studies.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 153 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nucleus accumbens GLP-1 signaling and its role in reward and metabolic regulation: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2026Pooled it
- The effects of neuromodulation interventions on the eating behaviors of patients with eating disorders compared to healthy controls, sham therapies, and other therapeutic approaches: A systematic review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Pooled it
- Biological treatments for co-occurring eating disorders and psychological trauma: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The Neural Correlates of Body Image Processing in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis of fMRI Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of stress on the neural underpinnings of disinhibited eating: a systematic review and future directions for research.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Therapeutic uses of psychedelics for eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Neural correlates associated with processing food stimuli in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of fMRI studies.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Brain networks in eating disorders: a systematic review of graph theory studies.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- The Development of Feeding and Eating Disorders after Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of reviews of neurocognitive functioning in eating disorders: The state-of-the-literature and future directions.The International journal of eating disorders · 2018Pooled it
- Behavioural biases in the interaction with food objects in virtual reality and its clinical implication for binge eating disorder.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Trial
- Correcting the reward imbalance in binge eating: A pilot randomized trial of reward re-training treatment.Appetite · 2022Trial
- The Reward Re-Training protocol: A novel intervention approach designed to alter the reward imbalance contributing to binge eating during COVID-19.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Trial
- Associations of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI With Frontostriatal Connectivity in Young Children.Pediatric obesity · 2026Article
- Annual Research Review: Neural mechanisms of eating disorders in youth - from current theory and findings to future directions.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Eating and Mental Health Disorders.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Shared and disorder-specific resting-state neural activity characteristics in patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Affiliative behaviours regulate allostasis development and shape biobehavioural trajectories in horses.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Multimodal machine learning reveals neurobiological signatures of binge-type eating disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided insight on how neural abnormalities are related to the symptomatology of the eating disorders (EDs): anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED). More specifically, an increasingly growing number of brain imaging studies has shed light on how functionally connected brain networks contribute not only to disturbed eating behavior, but also to transdiagnostic alterations in body/interoceptive perception, reward processing and executive functioning.
methodsThis narrative review aims to summarize recent advances in fMRI studies of patients with EDs by highlighting studies investigating network alterations that are shared across EDs. RESULTS AND
conclusionFindings on reward processing in both AN and BN patients point to the presence of altered sensitivity to salient food stimuli in striatal regions and to the possibility of hypothalamic inputs being overridden by top-down emotional-cognitive control regions. Additionally, innovative new lines of research suggest that increased activations in fronto-striatal circuits are strongly associated with the maintenance of restrictive eating habits in AN patients. Although significantly fewer studies have been carried out in patients with BN and BED, aberrant neural responses to both food cues and anticipated food receipt appear to occur in these populations. These altered responses, coupled with diminished recruitment of prefrontal cognitive control circuitry, are believed to contribute to the binge eating of palatable foods. Results from functional network connectivity studies are diverse, but findings tend to converge on indicating disrupted resting-state connectivity in executive networks, the default-mode network and the salience network across EDs.
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