What can cognitive neuroscience teach us about anorexia nervosa?

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 415-420

  Kidd, Amelia ^a   Steinglass, Joanna ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AN; Anorexia nervosa; Central coherence; Cognitive flexibility; Cognitive neuroscience; Corticostriatal systems; Insula; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychology; Reward; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERCEPTION DISORDER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84865616800     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0285-8     Document Type: Article

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