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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Selective Processing of Food– and Body–Related Information and Autonomic Arousal in Patients with Eating Disorders
Thierry LeonardRosa M. BañosJanet TreasureAlyson J. BondConxa Perpiñásubject
Linguistics and Languagemedicine.medical_specialtyAutonomic arousaldigestive oral and skin physiologyAnorexiaAttentional biasAudiologymedicine.diseaseLanguage and LinguisticsCognitive biasDevelopmental psychologyEating disordersmental disordersmedicineIn patientmedicine.symptomPsychologyReactivity (psychology)General PsychologyStroop effectdescription
Both attentional bias (using the modified Stroop Task) and autonomic reactivity (skin conductance level) to food- and body-related information were assessed in 25 patients with eating disorders (15 patients with anorexia, 10 patients with bulimia) and 18 women controls. Patients with anorexia showed the greatest interference in color-naming food-related words. However, on this occasion there were no differences in body condition, probably because of heterogeneity of clinical samples and because the control group were staff members, so the target information was very familiar to them. The groups differed in their autonomic reactivity while performing the Stroop, the patients with anorexia responded with higher skin conductance (p< .036). The discussion focuses on the differential profiles shown by samples and on the relationship between cognitive biases and autonomic arousal reactivity.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-05-01 | The Spanish Journal of Psychology |