JOURNAL ARTICLE

Cognitive Flexibility and Clinical Severity in Eating Disorders

Abstract

These findings confirm that patients with AN have poor cognitive flexibility. Severity of illness measured by length of illness does not fully explain the lack of flexibility and supports the trait nature of inflexibility in people with AN.

Keywords:
Eating disorders Anorexia nervosa Cognitive flexibility Bulimia nervosa Body mass index Medicine Cognition Flexibility (engineering) Psychiatry Clinical psychology Anticipation (artificial intelligence) Psychology Internal medicine

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Citation History

Topics

Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Social Sciences →  Psychology →  Clinical Psychology
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Social Sciences →  Psychology →  Clinical Psychology
Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
Social Sciences →  Psychology →  Clinical Psychology
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