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ReviewCurrent topics in behavioral neurosciences2025

Visual Perceptual Processing Abnormalities in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

Joel P Diaz-Fong, Jamie D Feusner

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Review in Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
27.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Attentional Modulation of Spatial Frequency Tuning: Links to Global-Local Processing and Potential Remediation of Frequency Biases.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
    Article
  3. Sensing the Self: The Role of the Insula and Interoception in Body Image.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Joel P Diaz-FongInstitute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2108-6830
Jamie D FeusnerInstitute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. jamie.feusner@utoronto.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-345X
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health · CA

Funding

Neural mechanisms of perceptual abnormalities and their malleability in bodydysmorphic disorderR01MH121520 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FEUSNER, JAMIE · 2020 to 2025
$2.8M
Anxiety and reward interaction and prediction of outcomes in anorexia nervosaR01MH105662 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FEUSNER, JAMIE · 2015 to 2019
$2.3M
Exogenous Modulation of Visual Perception And Connectivity in Body Dysmorphic Disorder (EMPAC-BDD)R21MH128815 · NIMH · CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH · PI FEUSNER, JAMIE · 2022 to 2023
$273k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH105662NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121520NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH128815
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phenomenological observations of individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), coupled with evidence from neuropsychological, psychophysical, and neuroimaging studies, support a model of aberrant visual perception characterized by deficient global/holistic, enhanced detail/local processing, and selective visual-attentional biases. These features may contribute to the core symptomatology of distorted perception of their appearance, in addition to misinterpretation of others' facial expressions and poor insight regarding their misperceived appearance defects. Insights from visual processing studies can contribute to the development of novel interventions, such as perceptual retraining and non-invasive neuromodulation. However, much remains to be understood about visual perception in BDD. Future research should leverage brain imaging modalities with high temporal resolutions and employ study designs that induce conflicts in multisensory integration, thereby advancing our mechanistic understanding of distorted visual perception observed in BDD.

Indexed as

Body Dysmorphic DisordersPerceptual DisordersVisual PerceptionHumansAttentionBody dysmorphic disorderInsightVisual perception

Identifiers

PMID38691313
PMCPMC11986646
OpenAlexW4396547373

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Registered trials

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