Trial reportScientific reports2021
Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial.
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- Weight-loss interventions for improving emotional eating among adults with high body mass index: A systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Pooled it
- Behavioural biases in the interaction with food objects in virtual reality and its clinical implication for binge eating disorder.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Trial
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- Diminished prefrontal cortex activation in patients with binge eating disorder associates with trait impulsivity and improves after impulsivity-focused treatment based on a randomized controlled IMPULS trial.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Trial
- Distractor effect of food stimuli among patients with binge eating behaviour - a narrative review and pilot data.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- A 50 year review of hyperpalatable foods consumed in binge-eating episodes.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Mechanisms of an inhibitory control training to reduce binge eating behaviours: study protocol of the randomized controlled proof-of-principle MIND BINGES trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Beyond BMI: the complex interplay of reward sensitivity, eating behaviors, and BMI in female college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Microbiota-gut-brain axis in binge-eating disorder: Towards microbiome-based therapies.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
- A Behavioral and Event-Related Potentials Study of Food-Related Inhibitory Control in Probable Binge Eating Disorder.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Binge eating disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022Article
- Food Addiction in Eating Disorders: A Cluster Analysis Approach and Treatment Outcome.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Efficacy of a Group Psychoeducation Treatment in Binge Eating Disorder: An Open-Label Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Trait Impulsivity and Choice Impulsivity in Young Adult Students With Probable Binge Eating Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- A Multi-Faceted Evaluation of Impulsivity Traits and Early Maladaptive Schemas in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Patients with Obesity and Atrial Fibrillation: Position Paper of Italian National Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO).Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- A Pilot Event-Related Potentials Study on Mechanisms Underlying a tDCS-Enhanced Food-Specific Response Inhibition Task for Patients With Binge Eating Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Food-related impulsivity, i.e. a food-related attentional bias proposed to be due to increased reward sensitivity and diminished inhibitory control, has been cross-sectionally associated with binge eating disorder. To analyze changes in food-related impulsivity, we implemented longitudinal analyses of objective laboratory tasks in a randomized controlled trial called IMPULS. Patients who attended an impulsivity-focused group intervention (IG N = 31) and control patients who did not take part in the intervention (CG N = 25) were compared before (T0) and after the intervention period (T1) and at three months follow-up (T2). Patients' impulsive gaze behavior towards food vs. neutral stimuli was measured in two eye tracking paradigms, one addressing reward sensitivity and another addressing inhibitory control. Initial fixations of food vs. neutral stimuli were increased at T0 (IG: p = .014, CG: p = .001), but not at T1 and T2 in IG (T1: p = .178, T2: p = .203) and in CG after Bonferroni correction only at T2 (T1: p = .031, T2: p = .002). Patients from IG increased dwell time on neutral stimuli at T1 contrary to patients from CG (p = .016) and rated the presented food stimuli as less positive (e.g. pleasantness p < .001 at T1 and T2). A possible explanation for this observation is reduced reward sensitivity, which implies a short-term treatment effect. Both groups showed improvement in inhibiting eye movements towards food and neutral stimuli over time (i.e. first saccade errors overall p < .001, second saccade errors overall p < .003). This could indicate increased inhibitory control due to training effects from the study paradigm. The results suggest that food-related impulsivity represents an underlying mechanism of BED and that it is modifiable by cognitive behavioral interventions.
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