ArticleHuman brain mapping2021
The emotional face of anorexia nervosa: The neural correlates of emotional processing.
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- Evoked emotions in anorexia nervosa: neural and behavioural correlates of social-emotional processing.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neuroanatomical associations with autistic characteristics in those with acute anorexia nervosa and weight-restored individuals.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Resting-state functional brain connectivity in female adolescents with first-onset anorexia nervosa.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2025Article
- Longitudinal study of socio-emotional cognitive processing in individuals with anorexia nervosa and the impact of autistic characteristics on neural processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Are youPersonality neuroscience · 2024Review
- Social Processing in Eating Disorders: Neuroimaging Paradigms and Research Domain Organizational Constructs.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- State of Mind Assessment in Relation to Adult Attachment and Text Analysis of Adult Attachment Interviews in a Sample of Patients with Anorexia Nervosa.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022Article
- Autism and anorexia nervosa: Longitudinal prediction of eating disorder outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The sight of one's own body: Could qEEG help predict the treatment response in anorexia nervosa?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The emotional face of anorexia nervosa: The neural correlates of emotional processing.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
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Abstract
Social-emotional processing difficulties have been reported in Anorexia Nervosa (AN), yet the neural correlates remain unclear. Previous neuroimaging work is sparse and has not used functional connectivity paradigms to more fully explore the neural correlates of emotional difficulties. Fifty-seven acutely unwell AN (AAN) women, 60 weight-recovered AN (WR) women and 69 healthy control (HC) women categorised the gender of a series of emotional faces while undergoing Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The mean age of the AAN group was 19.40 (2.83), WR 18.37 (3.59) and HC 19.37 (3.36). A whole brain and psychophysical interaction connectivity approach was used. Parameter estimates from significant clusters were extracted and correlated with clinical symptoms. Whilst no group level differences in whole brain activation were demonstrated, significant group level functional connectivity differences emerged. WR participants showed increased connectivity between the bilateral occipital face area and the cingulate, precentral gyri, superior, middle, medial and inferior frontal gyri compared to AAN and HC when viewing happy valenced faces. Eating disorder symptoms and parameter estimates were positively correlated. Our findings characterise the neural basis of social-emotional processing in a large sample of individuals with AN.
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