Socio-cognitive processing in people with eating disorders: Computerized tests of mentalizing, empathy and imitation skills.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses characterized by extreme eating behaviors, such as sustained food restriction or loss of control over eating. Symptoms are thought to be maintained by a variety of mechanisms, one of which may be the socio-cognitive impairments associated with eating disorders. While some previous work has addressed socio-cognitive impairments in eating disorders, this work has relied mostly on self-report data.

Method

Here we employed computerized tests of (a) mentalizing (ability to infer the mental states of others); (b) empathy (the degree to which the emotional states of others can be identified and the degree to which the states of others impact one's own emotional state); and (c) imitation (the degree to which observation of another

SUBMITTER: Corsi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8453969 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature