Physiological, emotional and neural responses to visual stimuli in eating disorders: a review.

摘要: Overconcern with food and shape/weight stimuli are central to eating disorder maintenance attentional biases seen towards these images not present in healthy controls. These trigger changes the physiological, emotional, neural responses people disorders, regularly used research clinical practice. However, selection of for treatments is frequently based on self-reported emotional ratings alone, whether self-reports reflect objective unknown. This review assessed associations across self-report, both body-shape/weight anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia (BN) binge (BED). For stimuli, either an aversive or lack physiological effect was generated AN, together a negative response neuroimaging, high subjective anxiety ratings. People BN showed positive self-rating, reaction, motivational response. In BED, reaction found contrast motivational/appetitive responses, rated as pleasant. The results some modalities, which reflected but this consistent studies. Shape/weight more reliable use therapy than impact responses. Care should be taken when using due disconnect reported review.