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Hunger and appetite during visual perception of food in eating disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S Bossert-Zaudig ,
R Laessle ,
C Meiller ,
H Ellgring  and
KM Pirke
S Bossert-Zaudig
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr 10, 8000Munich 40, Germany
R Laessle
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr 10, 8000Munich 40, Germany
C Meiller
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr 10, 8000Munich 40, Germany
H Ellgring*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr 10, 8000Munich 40, Germany
KM Pirke
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr 10, 8000Munich 40, Germany
*
*Present address: Free University of Berlin, Berlin.
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Summary

Nineteen different slides of food items and their effects on appetite and hunger as rated on visual analogue scales were investigated in 20 bulimics and 9 anorexics (DSM-III-R) at the onset and after 8 weeks of behavioral hospital treatment; 9 controls were examined at the maximum of weight loss during a diet and at normal weight. At the onset of treatment appetite ratings were significantly lower in patients than in dieting controls. In anorexics and bulimics appetite ratings increased significantly during treatment. The sight of food did not increase reported hunger in bulimics but did so in controls. Appetite ratings, however, were significantly increased by the sight of food in bulimics as well as in controls. Despite the small sample size, it may be concluded that dieting and weight loss have different psychological implications in healthy controls and in patients with eating disorders, that dieting rather than weight per se influences appetite and that differences in hunger responsiveness to the sight of food in anorexics and bulimics seem likely.

Keywords

eating disordersappetitefoodvisual perception
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Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , 1991 , pp. 237 - 242
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1991

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