The real-life costs of emotion regulation in anorexia nervosa: a combined ecological momentary assessment and fMRI study.

ABSTRACT: Regulation of emotions is necessary for successful attainment of short-term and long-term goals. However, over-regulation may also have its costs. In anorexia nervosa (AN), forgoing food intake despite emaciation and endocrine signals that promote eating is an example of "too much" self-control. Here we investigated whether voluntary emotion regulation in AN patients comes with associated disorder-relevant costs. Thirty-five patients with acute AN and thirty-five age-matched healthy controls (HCs) performed an established emotion regulation paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging after an overnight fast. The task required reducing emotions induced by positively valenced pictures via distancing. We calculated a neural regulation score from responses recorded in a reward-relate

SUBMITTER: Seidel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5802555 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature