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Personality Pathology and Cerebral Processing in Eating Disorders (EAT_FMRI)
The proposed study will investigate whether, on the basis of personality traits and personality disorders as well as specific cerebral activation patterns shows differences in adolescent female with anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and a healthy control group.
Details
| Lead sponsor | Medical University Innsbruck |
|---|---|
| Status | UNKNOWN |
| Enrolment | 110 |
| Start date | 2015-01 |
| Completion | 2018-11 |
Conditions
- Eating Disorders
Interventions
- SCID-I
- EAT
- EDI-2
- SCID-II
- LoPF
- HAWIK-IV
- fMRI
Primary outcomes
- Neural correlates (fMRI): Differences on cerebral activation patterns in the AN and BN groups from those in the control group — At the begin of therapy (T1, week 1) and at the end of therapy (T2) (approx. 2 months)
Cerebral activation patterns ((activation of prefrontal, parahippocampal, cinculate, and insular cortex, posterior cingulate cortex ) in the AN and BN groups will differ from those in the control group
Countries
Austria