The relationship between attention and avoidance coping in anorexia nervosa: functional magnetic resonance imaging study
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Background: Numerous studies have demonstrated attentional control difficulties and high avoidance coping in patients with anorexia nervosa. Attention is a critical coping resource because it enables individuals to demonstrate self-control and complete goal-directed behaviours. Aims: We aimed to examine whether attentional control difficulty is related to high avoidance coping, and investigate the neural underpinnings of attentional control difficulties in individuals with anorexia nervosa. Method: Twenty-three patients with anorexia nervosa and 17 healthy controls completed questionnaires that assessed attention and coping, and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a go/no-go task. Results: Patients with anorexia nervosa showed weaker attentional control, higher omission error rates and higher avoidance coping compared with healthy controls. Attentional control difficulty was associated with higher avoidance coping in both groups. Functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis showed less deactivation in regions representing internal mental processing, such as the praecuneus, cuneus and left lingual gyrus, during the no-go condition. Moreover, weakened deactivation of the left lingual gyrus was associated with higher commission error rate in the anorexia nervosa group. Conclusions: Our results suggest that patients with anorexia nervosa may have difficulty in maintaining attention to external ongoing events because of disturbance from internal self-related thought, and support the notion that attentional control difficulties underlie the frequent use of avoidance coping in anorexia nervosa.
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The posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus are key nodes of the default mode network, which represents self-referential processing and autobiographical memory.
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- Authors
- Noda, T., Isobe, M., Ueda, K., Aso, T., Murao, E., Kawabata, M., Noma, S., & Murai, T.
- Affiliations
- Kyoto University (JP)
- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Noda, Tomomi
- Venue
- BJPsych Open
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2021-07
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- e130-e130
- ISSN
- 2056-4724 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC8281280
- OpenAlex
- W3181646671
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- Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K09480, 19K17088, 19J40242, 23K21395, 15K09864, 18J14667, JP16H06395,, JP16H06397)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- anorexia nervosa, attentional control, avoidance coping, go/no-go task, neural deactivation, cuneus, omission errors, commission errors
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