Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Food-related impulsivity, i.e. a food-related attentional bias proposed to be due to increased reward sensitivity and diminished inhibitory control, has been cross-sectionally associated with binge eating disorder. To analyze changes in food-related impulsivity, we implemented longitudinal...

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Autores principales: Kathrin Schag, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Paolo Meneguzzo, Peter Martus, Stephan Zipfel, Katrin E. Giel
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:0216e43697c8453db1ade5c4c398981b2021-12-02T14:31:01ZFood-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial10.1038/s41598-021-87231-w2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/0216e43697c8453db1ade5c4c398981b2021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87231-whttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Food-related impulsivity, i.e. a food-related attentional bias proposed to be due to increased reward sensitivity and diminished inhibitory control, has been cross-sectionally associated with binge eating disorder. To analyze changes in food-related impulsivity, we implemented longitudinal analyses of objective laboratory tasks in a randomized controlled trial called IMPULS. Patients who attended an impulsivity-focused group intervention (IG N = 31) and control patients who did not take part in the intervention (CG N = 25) were compared before (T0) and after the intervention period (T1) and at three months follow-up (T2). Patients’ impulsive gaze behavior towards food vs. neutral stimuli was measured in two eye tracking paradigms, one addressing reward sensitivity and another addressing inhibitory control. Initial fixations of food vs. neutral stimuli were increased at T0 (IG: p = .014, CG: p = .001), but not at T1 and T2 in IG (T1: p = .178, T2: p = .203) and in CG after Bonferroni correction only at T2 (T1: p = .031, T2: p = .002). Patients from IG increased dwell time on neutral stimuli at T1 contrary to patients from CG (p = .016) and rated the presented food stimuli as less positive (e.g. pleasantness p < .001 at T1 and T2). A possible explanation for this observation is reduced reward sensitivity, which implies a short-term treatment effect. Both groups showed improvement in inhibiting eye movements towards food and neutral stimuli over time (i.e. first saccade errors overall p < .001, second saccade errors overall p < .003). This could indicate increased inhibitory control due to training effects from the study paradigm. The results suggest that food-related impulsivity represents an underlying mechanism of BED and that it is modifiable by cognitive behavioral interventions.Kathrin SchagElisabeth J. LeehrPaolo MeneguzzoPeter MartusStephan ZipfelKatrin E. GielNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
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Kathrin Schag
Elisabeth J. Leehr
Paolo Meneguzzo
Peter Martus
Stephan Zipfel
Katrin E. Giel
Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
description Abstract Food-related impulsivity, i.e. a food-related attentional bias proposed to be due to increased reward sensitivity and diminished inhibitory control, has been cross-sectionally associated with binge eating disorder. To analyze changes in food-related impulsivity, we implemented longitudinal analyses of objective laboratory tasks in a randomized controlled trial called IMPULS. Patients who attended an impulsivity-focused group intervention (IG N = 31) and control patients who did not take part in the intervention (CG N = 25) were compared before (T0) and after the intervention period (T1) and at three months follow-up (T2). Patients’ impulsive gaze behavior towards food vs. neutral stimuli was measured in two eye tracking paradigms, one addressing reward sensitivity and another addressing inhibitory control. Initial fixations of food vs. neutral stimuli were increased at T0 (IG: p = .014, CG: p = .001), but not at T1 and T2 in IG (T1: p = .178, T2: p = .203) and in CG after Bonferroni correction only at T2 (T1: p = .031, T2: p = .002). Patients from IG increased dwell time on neutral stimuli at T1 contrary to patients from CG (p = .016) and rated the presented food stimuli as less positive (e.g. pleasantness p < .001 at T1 and T2). A possible explanation for this observation is reduced reward sensitivity, which implies a short-term treatment effect. Both groups showed improvement in inhibiting eye movements towards food and neutral stimuli over time (i.e. first saccade errors overall p < .001, second saccade errors overall p < .003). This could indicate increased inhibitory control due to training effects from the study paradigm. The results suggest that food-related impulsivity represents an underlying mechanism of BED and that it is modifiable by cognitive behavioral interventions.
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author Kathrin Schag
Elisabeth J. Leehr
Paolo Meneguzzo
Peter Martus
Stephan Zipfel
Katrin E. Giel
author_facet Kathrin Schag
Elisabeth J. Leehr
Paolo Meneguzzo
Peter Martus
Stephan Zipfel
Katrin E. Giel
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title Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
title_short Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
title_full Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
title_sort food-related impulsivity assessed by longitudinal laboratory tasks is reduced in patients with binge eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial
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