Social and emotional processing as a behavioural endophenotype in eating disorders: A pilot investigation in twins

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 294-307

  Kanakam, Natalie ^a,b   Krug, Isabel ^a   Raoult, Charlotte ^a   Collier, David ^a   Treasure, Janet ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eating disorder; emotion; endophenotype; familial; heritable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; DIFFICULTIES IN EMOTION REGULATION SCALE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STROOP TASK; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOPHENOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PILOT STUDY; READING THE MIND IN THE EYES TEST; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THREAT; TWINS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISEASES IN TWINS; EATING DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; ENDOPHENOTYPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TWINS;

EID: 84878879724     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: 10990968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.2232     Document Type: Article

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