Université de Fribourg

Behavioral Responses to Uncertainty in Weight-Restored Anorexia Nervosa – Preliminary Results

Piccolo, Mayron ; Milos, Gabriella Franca ; Bluemel, Sena ; Schumacher, Sonja ; Mueller-Pfeiffer, Christoph ; Fried, Michael ; Ernst, Monique ; Martin-Soelch, Chantal

In: Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, p. 1-5

Impaired decision-making under conditions of uncertainty seems to contribute to theexpression and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN), but it is not clear whether thisimpairment is a disease state that would remit with treatment, or a persisting trait inpatients with AN. To examine this question, a longitudinal study was conducted in12 female inpatients with AN (age M = 22.2, SE = 1.36), before...