ArticleTranslational psychiatry2022
Neural and behavioral effects of modification of visual attention in body dysmorphic disorder.
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- A systematic review of neurocognition and social cognition in body dysmorphic disorder.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Neurofeedback interventions for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: Current evidence and future directions.Journal of psychiatric research · 2026Review
- Effects of theta burst stimulation on neural connectivity and visual perception following attention modification of own-face viewing in body dysmorphic disorder.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Emotion regulation and visual attention in body dysmorphic disorder: a multimodal study using EEG, GSR, and eye-tracking.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Seeing the Flaws? Visual Perception of Faces in Individuals Screening Positive for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder, gender differences and association with body mass index among medical students in Pakistan.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Case Report: Physiological and psychological underpinnings of muscle dysmorphia using EEG, GSR, and eye-tracking.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Visual Perceptual Processing Abnormalities in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Body dysmorphic disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024Review
- Quantifying body size estimation accuracy and body dissatisfaction in body dysmorphic disorder using a digital avatar.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2024Article
- Advancing Psychosocial Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A State-of-the-Science Review.Behavior therapy · 2024Review
- Visual system structural and functional connections during face viewing in body dysmorphic disorder.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Learning of the same task subserved by substantially different mechanisms between patients with body dysmorphic disorder and healthy individuals.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
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Abstract
In individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), perceptual appearance distortions may be related to selective attention biases and aberrant visual scanning, contributing to imbalances in global vs. detailed visual processing. Treatments for the core symptom of perceptual distortions are underexplored in BDD; yet understanding their mechanistic effects on brain function is critical for rational treatment development. This study tested a behavioral strategy of visual-attention modification on visual system brain connectivity and eye behaviors. We acquired fMRI data in 37 unmedicated adults with BDD and 30 healthy controls. Participants viewed their faces naturalistically (naturalistic viewing), and holding their gaze on the image center (modulated viewing), monitored with an eye-tracking camera. We analyzed dynamic effective connectivity and visual fixation duration. Modulated viewing resulted in longer mean visual fixation duration compared to during naturalistic viewing, across groups. Further, modulated viewing resulted in stronger connectivity from occipital to parietal dorsal visual stream regions, also evident during the subsequent naturalistic viewing, compared with the initial naturalistic viewing, in BDD. Longer fixation duration was associated with a trend for stronger connectivity during modulated viewing. Those with more severe BDD symptoms had weaker dorsal visual stream connectivity during naturalistic viewing, and those with more negative appearance evaluations had weaker connectivity during modulated viewing. In sum, holding a constant gaze on a non-concerning area of one's face may confer increased communication in the occipital/parietal dorsal visual stream, facilitating global/holistic visual processing. This effect shows persistence during subsequent naturalistic viewing. Results have implications for perceptual retraining treatment designs.
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