ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Emotion Recognition Abilities in Adults with Anorexia Nervosa are Associated with Autistic Traits.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A scoping review of the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorders: exploring the secondary impact of eating disorders and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- A Mixed Method Systematic Review Into the Impact of ED Treatment in Autistic People and Those With High Autistic Traits.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Investigating the Presence of Autistic Traits and Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive and emotional empathy in acute and remitted anorexia nervosa: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Long-term follow-up study of low-weight avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and childhood-onset anorexia nervosa: comparison of autistic eating behaviours.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
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- The Hidden Spectrum Within Eating Disorders: Clustering Neurodivergent Traits and Sensory Sensitivity.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Alexithymia and Emotion Recognition Over the Treatment Course in Adolescents and Emerging Adults With Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Social camouflaging of autistic traits is associated with more severe symptoms among subjects with feeding and eating disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- A pilot study investigating the acceptability and feasibility of a group intervention for parents of autistic young people with anorexia nervosa within a specialist eating disorders service.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence-assisted visual elicitation in anorexia nervosa : Qualitative case studies.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation and Associations With Disordered Eating During Preadolescence.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Dynamic Emotion Recognition and Expression Imitation in Neurotypical Adults and Their Associations with Autistic Traits.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Barriers and facilitators to ethical co-production with Autistic people with an eating disorder.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- "It's not about wanting to be thin or look small, it's about the way it feels": an IPA analysis of social and sensory differences in autistic and non-autistic individuals with anorexia and their parents.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Problematic eating behaviours of autistic women-A scoping review.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Article
- Judging the emotional states of customer service staff in the workplace: A multimodal dataset analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Altered Processing of Social Emotions in Individuals With Autistic Traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Difficulties in socio-emotional functioning are proposed to contribute to the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN). This study aimed to examine emotion recognition abilities in individuals in the acute and recovered stages of AN compared to healthy controls (HCs). A second aim was to examine whether attention to faces and comorbid psychopathology predicted emotion recognition abilities. The films expressions task was administered to 148 participants (46 AN, 51 recovered AN, 51 HC) to assess emotion recognition, during which attention to faces was recorded using eye-tracking. Comorbid psychopathology was assessed using self-report questionnaires and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2nd edition (ADOS-2). No significant differences in emotion recognition abilities or attention to faces were found between groups. However, individuals with a lifetime history of AN who scored above the clinical cut-off on the ADOS-2 displayed poorer emotion recognition performance than those scoring below cut-off and HCs. ADOS-2 scores significantly predicted emotion recognition abilities while controlling for group membership and intelligence. Difficulties in emotion recognition appear to be associated with high autism spectrum disorder (ASD) traits, rather than a feature of AN. Whether individuals with AN and high ASD traits may require different treatment strategies or adaptations is a question for future research.
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