Neural correlates of the processing of self-referent emotional information in bulimia nervosa.

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There is increasing interest in understanding the roles of distorted beliefs about the self, ostensibly unrelated to eating, weight and shape, in eating disorders (EDs), but little is known about their neural correlates. We therefore used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural correlates of self-referent emotional processing in EDs. During the scan, unmedicated patients with bulimia nervosa (n=11) and healthy controls (n=16) responded to personality words previously f...

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Authors: Pringle, A; Ashworth, F; Harmer, C; Norbury, R; Cooper, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuropsychologia
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 3272-3278
• Publication date: 2011-10-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.032
• EISSN: 1873-3514
• ISSN: 0028-3932
• Language: English
• Keywords: Adult; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Personality; Mood Disorders; Young Adult; Bulimia Nervosa; Ego; Female; Oxygen; Brain Mapping; Vocabulary; Brain; Personality Inventory; Humans