ArticlePsychological medicine2023
Altered prefrontal activation during the inhibition of eating responses in women with bulimia nervosa.
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- A neurodevelopmental model of eating disorder risk in midlife to older adulthood.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
- Bulimia nervosa.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Aberrant large- and mesoscale network segregation and integration in bulimia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Prefrontal and ventral striatal neural correlates of reversal learning in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Shared Brain factors in eating disorders and obesity: a systematic review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) studies.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Non-invasive brain stimulation as an experimental treatment approach for bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders: A meta-analysis and systematic review of literature.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2026Review
- Prefrontal Cortex Recruitment to Food Stimuli Differs in Overweight/Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Efficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa (BN): A Review and Insight into Potential Mechanisms of Action.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Boosting Psychotherapy With Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: The Whys and Wherefores of Modulating Neural Plasticity to Promote Therapeutic Change.Neural plasticity · 2024Review
- Glial cells in anorexia.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Review
- Altered connectivity patterns of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex underlie the severity of bulimic symptoms.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe sense of 'loss of control' (LOC), or a feeling of being unable to stop eating or control what or how much one is eating, is the most salient aspect of binge eating. However, the neural alterations that may contribute to this experience and eating behavior remain poorly understood.
methodsWe used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure activation in the prefrontal cortices of 23 women with bulimia nervosa (BN) and 23 healthy controls (HC) during two tasks: a novel go/no-go task requiring inhibition of eating responses, and a standard go/no-go task requiring inhibition of button-pressing responses.
resultsWomen with BN made more commission errors on both tasks. BN subgroups with the most severe LOC eating (
conclusionsResults provide initial evidence that diminished PFC activation may directly contribute to more severe eating-specific control deficits in BN. Our findings support vmPFC and vlPFC dysfunction as promising treatment targets, and indicate that eating-specific tasks and fNIRS may be useful tools for identifying neural mechanisms underlying dysregulated eating.
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