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. 2010 Apr;32(4):358-65.
doi: 10.1080/13803390903066857. Epub 2009 Oct 23.

Attention, executive functions, and mentalizing in anorexia nervosa eighteen years after onset of eating disorder

I Carina Gillberg  1 , Eva Billstedt, Elisabet Wentz, Henrik Anckarsäter, Maria Råstam, Christopher Gillberg
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Attention, executive functions, and mentalizing in anorexia nervosa eighteen years after onset of eating disorder

I Carina Gillberg et al. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2010 Apr.

Abstract

Objective: Prospective study of attention, executive functions, and mentalizing abilities in a representative sample of teenage-onset anorexia nervosa (AN).

Method: A total of 51 AN cases recruited after community screening were contrasted with 51 matched comparison cases 18 years after AN onset. Neuropsychological tests had been done at 21, 24, and 32 years (18 years after AN onset).

Results: The AN-group had more attention, executive function, and mentalizing problems. Some of these problems had been present at all three follow-up occasions.

Conclusions: AN is associated with a range of neuropsychological problems that are present long after the eating disorder per se is no longer an important feature.

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