Set-shifting among adolescents with bulimic spectrum eating disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Set-shifting difficulties are observed among adults with bulimia nervosa (BN). This study aimed to assess whether adolescents with BN and BN spectrum eating disorders exhibit set-shifting problems relative to healthy controls.

Methods

Neurocognitive data from 23 adolescents with BN were compared with those from 31 adolescents with BN-type eating disorder not otherwise specified and 22 healthy controls on various measures of set-shifting (Trail Making Task [shift task], Color-Word Interference, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and Brixton Spatial Anticipation Task).

Results

No significant differences in set-shifting tasks were found among groups (p >.35), and effect sizes were small (Cohen f < 0.17).

Conclusions

Cognitive inflexibility may develop over tim

SUBMITTER: Darcy AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3493118 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature