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Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa
In anorexia nervosa, aberrant emotional reactions toward body stimuli have been discussed. We investigated heart rate as a physiological marker when viewing body stimuli and hypothesized altered HR reactions toward those highly significant and emotional stimuli in anorexia nervosa. In total, 37 anor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10045133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36975240 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13030215 |
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author | Horndasch, Stefanie Sharon, Elisabeth Eichler, Anna Graap, Holmer Moll, Gunther H. Kratz, Oliver |
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description | In anorexia nervosa, aberrant emotional reactions toward body stimuli have been discussed. We investigated heart rate as a physiological marker when viewing body stimuli and hypothesized altered HR reactions toward those highly significant and emotional stimuli in anorexia nervosa. In total, 37 anorexia nervosa patients and 43 control participants viewed pictures of women of five different weight categories, while their cardiac activity was recorded. R-R intervals following picture onset were determined, and means were calculated for three distinct time periods. The overall change in HR relative to baseline across all picture categories was greater in the patient group than in the control group (significant effect of “group”, p = 0.002, partial η(2) = 0.120). A significant decrease in HR 2 to 8 s after picture presentation was found for pictures of women of extreme weight in both participant groups (significant “category ∗ time segment interaction”, p = 0.01, partial η(2) = 0.037) and correlated with scores of sociocultural attitudes toward the appearance for the extremely underweight category (r = −0.33, p = 0.005). Therefore, differential HR reactions for anorexia nervosa patients and control participants were found for body stimuli in general. The highest HR decelerations in response to pictures of strongly underweight and overweight women may reflect emotional processes such as anxiety due to social comparison. |
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spelling | pubmed-100451332023-03-29 Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa Horndasch, Stefanie Sharon, Elisabeth Eichler, Anna Graap, Holmer Moll, Gunther H. Kratz, Oliver Behav Sci (Basel) Article In anorexia nervosa, aberrant emotional reactions toward body stimuli have been discussed. We investigated heart rate as a physiological marker when viewing body stimuli and hypothesized altered HR reactions toward those highly significant and emotional stimuli in anorexia nervosa. In total, 37 anorexia nervosa patients and 43 control participants viewed pictures of women of five different weight categories, while their cardiac activity was recorded. R-R intervals following picture onset were determined, and means were calculated for three distinct time periods. The overall change in HR relative to baseline across all picture categories was greater in the patient group than in the control group (significant effect of “group”, p = 0.002, partial η(2) = 0.120). A significant decrease in HR 2 to 8 s after picture presentation was found for pictures of women of extreme weight in both participant groups (significant “category ∗ time segment interaction”, p = 0.01, partial η(2) = 0.037) and correlated with scores of sociocultural attitudes toward the appearance for the extremely underweight category (r = −0.33, p = 0.005). Therefore, differential HR reactions for anorexia nervosa patients and control participants were found for body stimuli in general. The highest HR decelerations in response to pictures of strongly underweight and overweight women may reflect emotional processes such as anxiety due to social comparison. MDPI 2023-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10045133/ /pubmed/36975240 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13030215 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Horndasch, Stefanie Sharon, Elisabeth Eichler, Anna Graap, Holmer Moll, Gunther H. Kratz, Oliver Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa |
title | Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa |
title_full | Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa |
title_fullStr | Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa |
title_full_unstemmed | Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa |
title_short | Heart Rate as a Correlate for the Emotional Processing of Body Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa |
title_sort | heart rate as a correlate for the emotional processing of body stimuli in anorexia nervosa |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10045133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36975240 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13030215 |
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