SynthesisEating and weight disorders : EWD2022
Affective cognition in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the performance on the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test.
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- Do Individuals With Overweight and Obesity Have Reduced Affective and Cognitive Empathy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Mapping body-related research within the experimental landscape of anorexia nervosa: a scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive and emotional empathy in acute and remitted anorexia nervosa: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Human brain network for reading the mind from the eyes: beyond activated and deactivated regions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- The current clinical approach to feeding and eating disorders aimed to increase personalization of management.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- Diminished Adaptation, Satisfaction, and Neural Responses to Advantageous Social Signals in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Atypical social cognition processing in bulimia nervosa: an fMRI study of patients thinking of others' mental states.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2024Article
- The inside out model of emotion recognition: how the shape of one's internal emotional landscape influences the recognition of others' emotions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A quantitative study on peripersonal space in anorexia nervosa and healthy subjects: Role of social variables and association with psychopathology.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) is listed in the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria as a tool apt to measure the understanding of others' mental states. People diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (AN) showed poorer performances on the RMET than healthy controls. Less data are available concerning other eating disorders.
methodsSystematic review of four major databases from inception to July 15, 2021 following the PRISMA guidelines. Meta-analysis of cross-sectional observational studies comparing the scores of the RMET between patients with eating disorders and age- and-gender matched control groups.
resultsOut of 21 studies, we retrieved 29 independent samples of patients diagnosed with an eating disorder. Patients with active AN (n = 580) showed worse performances on the RMET than controls (n = 1019). Year of publication accounted for 61% of the (substantial: I
conclusionsPatients with eating disorders do not suffer from an impaired understanding of others' mental states, except for a still-to-be-identified subgroup of patients with active AN. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: I, systematic review and meta-analysis.
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