Employing executive functions of perceptual and memory abilities in underweight and weight-restored anorexia nervosa patients

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 479-487

  Heled, Eyal ^a,b   Hoofien, Dan ^b,c   Bachar, Eytan ^b,d   Cooper Kazaz, Rena ^b   Gur, Eitan ^a   Ebstein, Richard P ^e  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured   (Israel)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Boston Qualitative Scoring System; Executive functions; Memory; Perception; Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BOSTON QUALITATIVE SCORING SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REY OSTERRIETH COMPLEX FIGURE TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; UNDERWEIGHT; ADOLESCENT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THINNESS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920124077     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40519-014-0119-2     Document Type: Article

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