ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2018
Toward valid and reliable brain imaging results in eating disorders.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A systematic review of resting-state functional connectivity in obesity: Refining current neurobiological frameworks and methodological considerations moving forward.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Brain networks in eating disorders: a systematic review of graph theory studies.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
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- Moving towards specificity: A systematic review of cue features associated with reward and punishment in anorexia nervosa.Clinical psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Altered thalamo–cortical and occipital–parietal– temporal–frontal white matter connections in patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa: a systematic review of diffusion tensor imaging studiesJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2019Pooled it
- Brain and Cognitive Development in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review of fMRI Studies.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
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- Differential alterations of amygdala nuclei volumes in acutely ill patients with anorexia nervosa and their associations with leptin levels.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Neural activation of regions involved in food reward and cognitive control in young females with anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa versus healthy controls.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Aberrant reward-related neural activation: Dimensional correlate of binge-eating severity or categorical marker of binge eating?Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Trait anxiety is associated with amygdala expectation and caloric taste receipt response across eating disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human brain imaging can help improve our understanding of mechanisms underlying brain function and how they drive behavior in health and disease. Such knowledge may eventually help us to devise better treatments for psychiatric disorders. However, the brain imaging literature in psychiatry and especially eating disorders has been inconsistent, and studies are often difficult to replicate. The extent or severity of extremes of eating and state of illness, which are often associated with differences in, for instance hormonal status, comorbidity, and medication use, commonly differ between studies and likely add to variation across study results. Those effects are in addition to the well-described problems arising from differences in task designs, data quality control procedures, image data preprocessing and analysis or statistical thresholds applied across studies. Which of those factors are most relevant to improve reproducibility is still a question for debate and further research. Here we propose guidelines for brain imaging research in eating disorders to acquire valid results that are more reliable and clinically useful.
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