Who influences who: The Cognitive Flexibility – Emotions – Eating Disorders trio
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Eating disorders, executive function, cognitive flexibility, depression, suicideAbstract
Eating Disorders are one of the pathologies with the greatest population increase in recent years and associated with the highest mortality within the spectrum of mental disorders. The interest in its different manifestations yields inconsistent data about their etiology and maintenance factors, which is attributed to their symptomatic complexity, their comorbility with other psychopathologies and the usual migration between diagnoses.
The present estudy tries to provide evidence about the relationship between these disorders and the executive functions, specifically, with cognitive flexibility, and emotional factors. The results do not support the initial hypotheses as they did not show significant differences in cognitive flexibility between groups, obtaining only differences in the measure of depression. However, the executive function data are appreciated permeated by the emotional spectrum, so alternative explanations about possible endophenotype indicators are outlined.
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