Prone to food in bad mood-Emotion-potentiated food-cue reactivity in patients with binge-eating disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Theories on emotional eating are central to our understanding of etiology, maintenance, and treatment of binge eating. Yet, findings on eating changes under induced negative emotions in binge-eating disorder (BED) are equivocal. Thus, we studied whether food-cue reactivity is potentiated under negative emotions in BED, which would point toward a causal role of emotional eating in this disorder.

Methods

Patients with BED (n = 24) and a control group without eating disorders (CG; n = 69) completed a food picture reactivity task after induction of negative versus neutral emotions. Food-cue reactivity (self-reported food pleasantness, desire to eat [DTE], and corrugator supercilii muscle response, electromyogram [EMG]) was measured for low- and high-caloric food pictur

SUBMITTER: Arend AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9303400 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature