ArticleEuropean eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association2020
Prospective associations between childhood neuropsychological profiles and adolescent eating disorders.
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- A Systematic Review to Explore a Neuropsychological Profile that Predates Anorexia Nervosa.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Pooled it
- Loss of Control over Eating, Inhibitory Control, and Reward Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Psychosocial etiology of maladaptive exercise and its role in eating disorders: A systematic review.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Pooled it
- Blunted No-Go P3 predicts faster increases in disordered eating symptoms in early adolescents: A four-wave longitudinal study.Research square · 2026Article
- From childhood to adolescence: Development of binge eating and the prospective role of self-regulation.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological profile in young girls at high risk of developing anorexia nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Conceptualizing avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder via an executive functioning lens.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- From "online brains" to "online lives": understanding the individualized impacts of Internet use across psychological, cognitive and social dimensions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Prospective associations between childhood social communication processes and adolescent eating disorder symptoms in an epidemiological sample.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveCross-sectional associations between eating disorders (EDs) and deficits in neuropsychological functioning have been well documented; however, limited research has examined whether neuropsychological functioning is prospectively associated with EDs. The current study investigated prospective associations between neuropsychological functioning in childhood (ages 8 and 10) and ED behaviours and disorders in adolescence (at ages 14, 16, and 18 years) in a population-based sample.
methodParticipants (N = 4,803) were children enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a population-based, prospective study of women and their children. Regression methods tested associations between facets of neuropsychological functioning (attention, working memory, and inhibition) and eating disorder symptoms and diagnoses.
resultsBetter scores on working memory tasks in childhood were associated with decreased risk of fasting but increased risk of excessive exercise during adolescence. Better inhibitory control was associated with decreased risk for disordered eating at age 14, and attentional difficulties were associated with increased risk for binge eating disorder during adolescence among boys but not girls.
conclusionsNeuropsychological functioning may enhance risk for disordered eating behaviours in specific ways. Overall, effect sizes were small, and results did not support global associations between neuropsychological differences and ED risk in this sample.
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