Neurocognitive functions and social functioning in young females with recent-onset anorexia nervosa and recovered individuals.

摘要: Young individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) or recovered from AN display impairments of social function. To date, however, it is not clear whether they differ controls respect to neurocognitive performance and those functions contribute the compromised function observed in AN. We included 43 young females first-episode AN, 28 adolescent-onset 41 control (14–22 yr), all without comorbid autism spectrum disorder. compared participants across groups seven relevant functioning: set-shifting, local processing, processing speed, working memory, sustained attention, verbal abstraction. Further, we tested association between function, measured by Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), an ordinal logistic regression model. First, did on any groups. Second, only “verbal memory” was significantly associated Higher memory lower odds impaired group remained a significant factor, but absence interaction indicated that independent membership. performance. Verbal