title: Neuropsychological weaknesses in anorexia nervosa: set-shifting, central coherence, and decision making in currently ill and recovered women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study is to examine set-shifting, central coherence, and decision making in women currently ill with anorexia nervosa (AN), women recovered from AN, and healthy control women. We aim to test whether these neuropsychological weaknesses persist after recovery, and explore relations between the impairments
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to control women, ill and recovered women showed poor set-shifting and decision making. There were strong correlations between set-shifting and central coherence in the ill and recovered women. Decision making did not correlate with the other measures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present findings suggest that impaired set-shifting and decision making are stable traits in women with AN. Because individual differences within these groups were large, a rigid thinking style is only present in a (sub)population of ill and recovered women. Decision-making performance is not related to a rigid thinking style, but further research in this area is warranted.
authors.affiliation: Altrecht Eating Disorders Rintveld, Altrecht Mental Health Institute, The Netherlands. u.danner@altrecht.nl
authors.forename: Unna N
authors.initials: UN
authors.lastname: Danner
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: Paul A M
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Smeets
authors.forename: Floor
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: van Meer
authors.forename: Roger A H
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Adan
authors.forename: Hans W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Hoek
authors.forename: Annemarie A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: van Elburg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D012718:Set, Psychology