NCT06299293

Facial Emotion Recognition in Anorexia Nervosa

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istituto Auxologico Italiano · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Altered emotional processing is reported in Anorexia Nervosa. However, this capability is generally measured through explicit measures, like self-report questionnaires and facial emotion recognition tasks. Instead, no previous research has investigated implicit emotional processing in this clinical condition. In the implicit facial emotion recognition task grounded on the implicit "redundant target effect", individuals generally respond faster when two identical targets are presented simultaneously rather than when presented alone; moreover, the competitive presence of a distractor (that is another emotion or a neutral expression) affects the correct recognition of the target. The ability to recognize and detect facial expressions is explored about two main emotions, fear and anger, because of their role in the intra- and interindividual psychological processing.

Conditions

• Anorexia Nervosa

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Facial Emotion Recognition Test	In this test, the ability to detect and recognize facial expressions of fear or anger will be investigated.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-02-01
• Completion: 2024-02-01
• First posted: 2024-03-07
• Last updated: 2025-08-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy