title: [Theory of Mind in eating disorders: endophenotype of the disease?].
abstract: Considering the clinical and empirical evidence of socio-cognitive difficulties in patients with eating disorders, this paper aims to critically review the current state of research on theory of mind in anorexia and bulimia, to evaluate if there is any alteration of it in these pathologies and to determine whether there are indicators that can be considered endophenotype.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a literature search of PubMed database, using keywords related to the topic. The papers were analyzed according to inclusion/ exclusion criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified seven studies of patients with anorexia, one on bulimia and four on both pathologies. Most studies reported that patients with anorexia have alterations in the theory of mind. Studies on bulimia are scarce, and their results contradictory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Research on theory of mind in eating disorders at initial level, being the most of works on anorexia. There are indicators of deficits for this pathology on ToM tasks, and they might be considered endophenotypes, although studies that evaluate unaffected first-degree relatives are still lacking.
authors.affiliation: CONICET. Sección de Neurología Cognitiva, Neuropsicología y Neuropsiquiatría, Instituto de Investigaciones Neurológicas Raúl Carrea - FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina. fetapajoz@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tapajóz
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Catoira
authors.forename: Ricardo F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Allegri
mesh_terms: D058068:Endophenotypes; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D056345:Theory of Mind