Physiological, emotional and neural responses to visual stimuli in eating disorders: a review

Table 4 Neural responses to food stimuli in people with BN

	BN participants	HC participants	Stimuli	BN > HC	BN < HC
Uher et al. 2004 [50]	10	19	Colour pictures of food > Non-food images Emotional aversive > neutral images	ACC, MOFC	L lateral and anterior parietal, LI parietal, L occipital, posterior cerebellum
Schienle et al. 2009 [56]	14	38	High calorie food images > disgust inducing images> neutral images	Insula and ACC	n/a
Brooks et al. 2011 [49]	8	24	Food > non-food	DLPFC, postcentral gyrus, caudate, precentral gyrus, supplementary motor area	bilateral superior temporal gyrus, bilateral insula, and visual cortex
Spangler et al. 2011 [59]	12	12	Computer generated thin and large body image Scrambled image	Pregenual ACC	n/a
Kim et al. 2012 [51]	20	20	High calorie food images > non-food images	Anterior Insula, R middle frontal gyrus and cerebellum	n/a
Skunde et al. 2016 [57]	28	29	Visual food stimuli > household item stimuli	No differences seen	No differences seen

R right, L left, DLPFC dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, OFC orbitofrontal cortex, ACC anterior cingulate cortex, M medial, I inferior

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