Physiological, emotional and neural responses to visual stimuli in eating disorders: a review

Emotional reactivity to social stimuli in patients with eating disorders.

Patients with eating disorders often display a wide range of difficulties in psychosocial functioning. Most of the studies on this subject have focused on theory of mind; however, little is known about the subjective emotional reactivity of patients to social situations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the patients' perceptions of their own emotions when viewing pictures with social conte...

Emotional responses to auditory stimuli

Temperament and emotional eating: a crucial relationship in eating disorders.

Specific personality traits are related to Eating Disorders (EDs) specific and general psychopathology. Recent studies suggested that Emotional Eating (EE) is a common dimension in all EDs, irrespective of binge eating. The present study was aimed to explore the relationship of temperamental features with EE and eating symptomatology in a sample of EDs patients, adjusting for general psychopath...

Emotional and physiological responses to normative and idiographic positive stimuli in bipolar disorder.

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined differences in emotional responding among distinct types of positive stimuli. This is important to understand both for individuals characterized by extreme positive mood (i.e., bipolar disorder) and healthy adults. METHODS Using a multi-method within-subjects design, the current study examined physiological, behavioral, and self-reported responses to norma...

Threat modulates neural responses to looming visual stimuli.

Objects on a collision course with an observer produce a specific pattern of optical expansion on the retina known as looming, which in theory exactly specifies the time-to-collision (TTC) of approaching objects. It was recently demonstrated that the affective content of looming stimuli influences perceived TTC, with threatening objects judged as approaching sooner than non-threatening objects....