Redefining phenotypes in eating disorders based on personality: A latent profile analysis

New data on psychological traits and sleep profiles of patients affected by nocturnal eating

“…NES patients scored significantly higher on the subscales: drive for thinness, enteroceptive awareness, and impulse regulation on the Eating Disorders Inventory-2. These characteristics are common among patients affected by BED [39,40] confirming that nocturnal eating might be part of the bingeeating spectrum. However, previous studies [9] found distinct differences between BED and NES patients: NES have significantly higher levels of nocturnal anxiety, suggesting that the syndromes cannot be considered as the same eating disorder [12,41].…”

Insatisfacción corporal y conductas de control del peso en chicas adolescentes con sobrepeso: papel mediador de la ansiedad y la depresión

“…Sería interesante que en estudios futuros con muestras amplias se comparara, a su vez, las chicas con sobrepeso y las chicas con obesidad en relación con las variables estudiadas e incluir algunas variables de personalidad, como la impulsividad, tal como se ha hecho en algunos estudios recientes en relación con la bulimia (40,41).…”

Clinical investigation of set-shifting subtypes in anorexia nervosa

“…Studies using the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI; Cloninger et al, 1993) demonstrated that individuals with Eating Disorders (EDs) tend to be inhibited (high harm avoidance), perseverative (high persistence) and with low self-directedness (Fassino et al, 2004;Lilenfeld, 2011). Additionally, a "maladaptive" profile (Krug et al, 2011) date the influence of personality on neuropsychological performances has received only scant attention.…”