ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
The effect of a single yoga class on interoceptive accuracy in patients affected by anorexia nervosa and in healthy controls: a pilot study.
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- Changes in body awareness in yoga interventions: A systematic review.Complementary therapies in clinical practice · 2025Pooled it
- Exercise therapy in the treatment of anorexia nervosa: Its effects depending on the type of physical exercise-A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Dissociative experiences and self-reported interoceptive traits in maladaptive daydreamers: a network analysis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Consensus-Based Recommendations for Yoga as Adjunct Therapy in Eating Disorder Treatment: A Delphi Study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Behavioral, neuronal, and physiological facets of multidimensional body image in anorexia nervosa: a scoping review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Insular dysfunction of interoception in major depressive disorder: from the perspective of neuroimaging.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Acute physical-activity related increases in interoceptive ability are not enhanced with simultaneous interoceptive attention.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effects of practicing yoga on alexisomia: an open-label trial.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of a Single Yoga Session on Cardiac Interoceptive Accuracy and Emotional Experience.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of Yoga as a Complementary Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review.International journal of yogaReview
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate interoceptive accuracy (Iac) before and after a single yoga class in a population of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and in a population of healthy controls (HC).
methodsFifteen patients with AN and twenty HC were included in the study. All individuals participated in a single yoga class. Before (T0) and after (T1) the yoga class, they underwent the heartbeat detection task for the evaluation of Iac. At T0, all participants also underwent a psychological assessment, including evaluation of depression, anxiety, body awareness, alexithymia, self-objectification and eating disorders psychopathology.
resultsPatients with AN had lower Iac than HC at T0. A significant improvement of Iac at T1 was found in the HC group but not in the group of patients with AN.
conclusionWe infer that our findings might be linked to the fact that patients with AN, differently from HC, did not properly attend to their bodies, despite the yoga class. This hypothesis is consistent with previous studies showing that patients with AN have decreased Iac during self-focused behavior because of body-related avoidance. Moreover, we surmise that HC might be keener to improve their perception of internal body signals even after a single yoga class because their emotional awareness system is not impaired. Patients with AN, on the contrary, may have an intrinsic impairment of their emotional awareness, making it harder for them to modulate their Iac. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytical studies.
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