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Table 7 Neural responses to body shape stimuli in people with BN

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

 

BN participants

HC participants

Stimuli

BN > HC

BN < HC

Uher et al. 2005 [68]

9

18

Line drawings of body shapes > line drawing of houses

n/a

R and lateral fusiform gyrus

Miyake et al. 2010 [64]

12

12

Negative body image words > neutral words

Negative emotional words > neutral words

R amygdala, L ventro MPFC

n/a

Vocks et al. 2010 [65]

15

27

Own body

n/a

RI parietal, right middle frontal

Image of other

Bilateral postcentral gyrus and bilateral hippocampal

n/a

Miyake et al. 2010 [53]

11

11

Own distorted body image

R occipital and R parietal

MPFC, DLPFC, amygdala

Distorted body image of other

R occipital and R parietal

n/a

Spangler et al. 2011 [59]

12

12

Distorted image of self > distorted image of other > abstract image

Pregenual ACC

n/a

  1. R right, L left, MPFC medial prefrontal cortex