ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Autism and anorexia nervosa: Longitudinal prediction of eating disorder outcomes.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07098156 (Neuroanatomical Differences Associated With Anorexia Nervosa and Masking Behaviour in Autistic Individuals), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Neuroanatomical Differences Associated With Anorexia Nervosa and Masking Behaviour in Autistic Individuals
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- A scoping review of the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorders: exploring the secondary impact of eating disorders and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Investigating the Presence of Autistic Traits and Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- A Mixed Method Systematic Review Into the Impact of ED Treatment in Autistic People and Those With High Autistic Traits.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Famine, plague, and slaughters: The fleeing famine hypothesis of anorexia nervosa reconsidered.Psychological review · 2026Article
- Clinical guidance for the use of nasogastric tube feeding under restraint in eating disorders care: a systematic scoping review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Feeling more than understanding: empathic disequilibrium and emotional reactivity in eating psychopathology.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Core Deficits and Eating Behaviors in Children with Autism: The Role of Executive Function.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Finding the Prevalence of Autism in Female Mental Illness: Improving Child Development for an Underdiagnosed and Undertreated Population.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Disordered eating in autistic trans and gender diverse people: a lived experience-led scoping review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Using Photovoice Methods to Set Research Priorities With Autistic People With Experience of an Eating Disorder.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative project outline: promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture.BJPsych bulletin · 2025Review
- Orthorexic Tendencies Are Associated with Autistic Traits in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Neuroanatomical associations with autistic characteristics in those with acute anorexia nervosa and weight-restored individuals.Psychological medicine · 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
- Autistic traits and perspective taking in youths with anorexia nervosa: an exploratory clinical and eye tracking study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- The clinical characteristics of autistic women with restrictive eating disorders.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- New understandings meet old treatments: putting a contemporary face on established protocols.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- A qualitative evaluation of the pathway for eating disorders and autism developed from clinical experience (PEACE): clinicians' perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- "It's not about wanting to be thin or look small, it's about the way it feels": an IPA analysis of social and sensory differences in autistic and non-autistic individuals with anorexia and their parents.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Sex-specific mechanisms for eating disorder risk in men and women with autistic traits: the role of alexithymia.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Recently, elevated levels of autistic features and autism diagnoses have been reported among people with anorexia nervosa (AN). In clinical settings high levels of autistic features have been linked to more complex, highly comorbid illness presentation and poorer treatment outcome. This study aimed to examine whether autistic features predict AN symptom profile in long term. Methods: Altogether 118 women with lived experience of AN completed two autism assessments at time 1, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the short version of the Autism Quotient (AQ10). Measures assessing AN symptom profile, including eating disorders symptoms, anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, and Body Mass Index (BMI), were also recorded. The symptom profile measures were administered again 6 months and 2 years later. We conducted two analyses to examine the extent to which the ADOS and AQ10 scores predicted broad AN symptom profile at each three time points. Results: Overall, high levels of autistic features were consistently associated with worse psychological symptoms, but not BMI, across all time points. Both the analysis using baseline ADOS scores and self-reported AQ10 scores showed similar pattern. Conclusion: The present findings consolidate previously reported associations between autistic features and worse psychological outcome among people with AN. The findings also suggest that self-report measures may be sufficient for assessing the impact of autistic features on illness outcome among people with AN. Importantly, the study highlights the need for development and further investigation of neurodiversity accommodations in the treatment of AN.
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