Oculomotor behaviors in youth with an eating disorder: findings from a video-based eye tracking task.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The oculomotor circuit spans many cortical and subcortical areas that have been implicated in psychiatric disease. This, combined with previous findings, suggests that eye tracking may be a useful method to investigate eating disorders. Therefore, this study aimed to assess oculomotor behaviors in youth with and without an eating disorder.

Methods

Female youth with and without an eating disorder completed a structured task involving randomly interleaved pro-saccade (toward at a stimulus) and anti-saccade (away from stimulus) trials with video-based eye tracking. Differences in saccades (rapid eye movements between two points), eye blinks and pupil were examined.

Results

Youth with an eating disorder (n = 65, M_age = 17.16 ± 3.5 years) were compare

SUBMITTER: Kirkpatrick RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337776 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature