Behavioural biases in the interaction with food objects in virtual reality and its clinical implication for binge eating disorder.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive processes play a central role in the development, maintenance and remission in mental disorders, like in Binge Eating Disorder (BED). Insights into cognitive mechanisms reflected by embodied interaction with food and its connections to clinically relevant psychopathology offer new possibilities for translational diagnostics and interventions. We longitudinally investigated the manual interaction with food in a virtual reality (VR) in 31 patients with BED. Patients were assessed at baseline before participating in a randomized-controlled trial (RCT) investigating a computer-based inhibitory control training programme enhanced by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and at a 6-week follow-up. At both assessments, an experimental VR paradigm was conducted and patients were

SUBMITTER: Max SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10209312 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature