Emotional intelligence, empathy and alexithymia in anorexia nervosa during adolescence.

CONCLUSION: Research on AN has to focus on the socio-emotional difficulties during adolescence, to properly identify which difficulties are linked to that life period, and which are a trait of AN.
LEVEL III: Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies, preferably from more than one center or research group.
PMID: 29453591 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - February 16, 2018 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Peres V, Corcos M, Robin M, Pham-Scottez A Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research