Selective visual attention for ugly and beautiful body parts in eating disorders

A Jansen, C Nederkoorn, S Mulkens - Behaviour research and therapy, 2005 - Elsevier
Body image disturbance is characteristic of eating disorders, and current treatments use
body exposure to reduce bad body feelings. There is however little known about the …

Brain activation during the perception of distorted body images in eating disorders

Y Miyake, Y Okamoto, K Onoda, M Kurosaki… - Psychiatry Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
Eating disorder (ED) patients have severe disturbances in the perception of body shape and
weight. The authors investigated brain activation patterns during the perception of distorted …

Psychological responses to body shape exposure in patients with bulimia nervosa

B Tuschen-Caffier, C Vögele, S Bracht… - Behaviour research and …, 2003 - Elsevier
One of the unresolved issues regarding research on bulimia nervosa concerns the question
as to how patients diagnosed with bulimia nervosa respond to body image exposure. In …

Looking at my body. Similarities and differences between anorexia nervosa patients and controls in body image visual processing

G Castellini, C Polito, E Bolognesi, A D'Argenio… - European …, 2013 - cambridge.org
BackgroundBody image distortion is a core symptom of eating disorders. Functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies on body image processing, described different …

Look at yourself: can body image therapy affect the cognitive and emotional response to seeing oneself in the mirror in eating disorders?

S Vocks, A Wächter, M Wucherer… - … Disorders Review: The …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The study examined whether the extent of negative body‐related thoughts and emotions
evoked by looking in a mirror can be changed by cognitive‐behavioural body image therapy …

The influence of gender and body dissatisfaction on body‐related attentional bias: An eye‐tracking and virtual reality study

B Porras‐Garcia, M Ferrer‐Garcia… - … Journal of Eating …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In the attentional bias (AB) phenomenon, eating disorder (ED) patients show a
tendency to pay more attention to self‐attributed unattractive body parts than to other body …

I see what you see: The lack of a self‐serving body‐image bias in eating disorders

A Jansen, T Smeets, C Martijn… - British Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. Eating‐disordered subjects feel unattractive, and the current idea is that this
feeling reflects a distorted body image. A distorted body image requires a mismatch between …

Food intake affects state body image: Impact of restrained eating patterns and concerns about eating, weight and shape

S Vocks, T Legenbauer, A Heil - Appetite, 2007 - Elsevier
Body image disturbances play a significant role in the development of eating disorders.
Since body image can vary in diverse contexts, the aim of the present experiment was to …

Bias for the (un) attractive self: on the role of attention in causing body (dis) satisfaction.

E Smeets, A Jansen, A Roefs - Health Psychology, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Body dissatisfaction plays a key role in the maintenance of eating disorders, and
selective attention might be crucial for the origin of body dissatisfaction. A. Jansen, C …

Effects of prolonged and repeated body image exposure in binge-eating disorder

A Hilbert, B Tuschen-Caffier, C Vögele - Journal of Psychosomatic …, 2002 - Elsevier
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate psychological mechanisms
associated with prolonged and repeated body image exposure. Method: In an experimental …