Cognitive performance in hospitalized patients with severe or extreme anorexia nervosa

CONCLUSIONS: Cognitive performance at hospital admission was normal in patients with severe or extreme AN and improved during treatment although without association to weight gain. Based on these results, which are in line with previous studies, patients with severe or extreme AN need not be excluded from cognitively demanding tasks, possibly including psychotherapy. As patients may have other symptoms that interfere with psychotherapy, future research could investigate cognitive functioning in everyday life in patients with severe AN.TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: The study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02502617).LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, cohort study.PMID:37864583 | DOI:10.1007/s40519-023-01585-w

Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - October 21, 2023 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Simone Daugaard Hemmingsen Mia Beck Lichtenstein Magnus Sj ögren Claire Gudex Pia Veldt Larsen Ren é Klinkby Støving Source Type: research