Neuropsychological assessments before and aftertreatment in patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimianervosa

Executive function in eating disorders: The role of state anxiety

“…[1][2][3] General intellectual ability appears to be preserved and is often in the high average range, but deficits involving attention, working memory, executive function, motor, and visual-spatial skills have been observed. 2 Some discrepancies have been found across eating disorder subtypes, including anorexia nervosarestricting type (ANR), anorexia nervosa-binge-eating/purging type (ANB), bulimia nervosa (BN), and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS).…”

Neuropsychological study of underweight and “weight‐recovered” anorexia nervosa compared with bulimia nervosa and normal controls

“…[37][38][39] There has been a paucity of studies directly comparing neuropsychological functioning in AN and BN participants. 8,40 A study comparing underweight and ''weight-recovered'' AN, normal weight BN and NC participants reported impaired attention in underweight AN and BN, impaired visuospatial function and memory in underweight AN and poorer focusing and executive functioning in BN. 8 In this study the ''weight-recovered'' AN group differed significantly in premorbid intelligence, thereby confounding any absolute group differences.…”

“…8 In this study the ''weight-recovered'' AN group differed significantly in premorbid intelligence, thereby confounding any absolute group differences. Lauer et al 40 compared AN with BN patients over 7 months of treatment and found that both groups had similarly impaired attention and problem solving. Both groups had similar levels of improvement following treatment, which were not associated with illness symptomatology.…”

“…Both groups had similar levels of improvement following treatment, which were not associated with illness symptomatology. 40 This study lacked a control group to exclude test-retest effects.…”

Neuropsychology of Bulimia Nervosa: New Findings

“…Some studies indicate that, compared to normal controls, patients with ED have deficits in different neuropsychological domains including verbal and visual memory, visuo spatial ability, attention and executive functions (Bowers, 1994;Camacho et al, 2008;Green et al, 1996;Jones et al, 1991;Kingston et al, 1996;Lauer et al, 1999;Mathias & Kent, 1998;Szmukler et al, 1992). Although these findings consistently indicate that ED are associated with some degree of neuropsychological dysfunction, the specific aspect that is damaged varies between studies, possibly due to variations in methodology.…”