ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2018
The Role of Habits in Anorexia Nervosa: Where We Are and Where to Go From Here?
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Altered value-based decision-making in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Naturally disengaging control to reveal habits.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2026Article
- Long-Term Recovery Following Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: A Mixed-Methods Follow-Up Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Bridging autism and eating disorders: a scoping review on repetitive and restrictive behavioral patterns.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Food preference and behavioural choice across the eating disorder and body weight spectrum.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Avoidance habit learning in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Investigating Associations Between General and Disorder-Specific Reward and Suicidality in Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Addressing Altered Anticipation as a Transdiagnostic Target Through Computational Psychiatry.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Exploring Habits in Anorexia Nervosa: Promise, Pitfalls, and Progress.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Naturally disengaging control to reveal habits.Research square · 2025Article
- Computational Perspectives on Cognition in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Review
- Habitual behavioural control moderates the relation between daily perceived stress and purging.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- The human VGLUT3-pT8I mutation elicits uneven striatal DA signaling, food or drug maladaptive consumption in male mice.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Temperament impact on eating disorder symptoms and habit formation: a novel model to inform treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
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- Habits and Persistent Food Restriction in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Adapting family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa delivered in the home: A novel approach for improving access to care and generalizability of skill acquisition.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Integrating aspects of affect, reward, and cognition to develop more comprehensive models of binge-eating pathology.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Could leptin substitution therapy potentially terminate entrapment in anorexia nervosa?Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2023Article
- A framework for conceptualising early intervention for eating disorders.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2023Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe persistent maladaptive eating behavior characteristic of anorexia nervosa (AN) can be understood as a learned habit. This review describes the cognitive neuroscience background and the existing data from research in AN. RECENT
findingsBehavior is habitual after it is frequently repeated and becomes nearly automatic, relatively insensitive to outcome, and mediated by dorsal frontostriatal neural systems. There is evidence for such behavior in AN, in which restrictive intake has been related to dorsal frontostriatal systems. Other neural and neurocognitive data provide mixed findings, some of which suggest disturbances in habit systems in AN. There are compelling behavioral and neural data to suggest that habit systems may underlie the persistence of AN. The habit model needs further research, via more direct behavioral hypothesis testing and probes of the development of habitual behavior. Investigation of the habit-centered model of AN may open avenues for the development of novel treatments.
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