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Eye movements and eating disorders: protocol for an exploratory experimental study examining the relationship in young-adult women with subclinical symptomatology.

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Abstract
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Recent research indicates that patients with anorexia (AN) show specific eye movement abnormalities such as shorter prosaccade latencies, more saccade inhibition errors, and increased rate of saccadic intrusions compared to participants without AN. However, it remains unknown whether these abnormal eye movement patterns, which may serve as potential biomarkers and endophenotypes for an early diagnosis and preventive clinical treatments, start to manifest also in people with subclinical eating disorders (ED) symptomatology. Therefore, we propose a protocol for an exploratory experimental study to investigate whether participants with subclinical ED symptomatology and control participants differ in their performance on several eye movement tasks.

Year of Publication
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2022
Journal
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Journal of eating disorders
Volume
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10
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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47
Date Published
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2022
URL
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https://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-022-00573-2
DOI
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10.1186/s40337-022-00573-2
Short Title
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J Eat Disord
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