title: Characteristics of Disorder-Related Autobiographical Memory in Acute Anorexia Nervosa Patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  First studies revealed overgeneral autobiographical memories in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate frequency, generalization and valence of autobiographical memories in AN patients in response to eating disorder-related cue words.
  
  
  METHODS
  Autobiographical memory was examined in 21 AN patients and 21 healthy controls (HC) using a modified version of the Autobiographical Memory Test, incorporating body-related, food-related, perfectionism-related, depression-related and neutral cues.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Anorexia nervosa patients recalled fewer and more general autobiographical memories compared with HC. For eating disorder-related cues as against neutral ones, AN patients compared with HC showed fewer memories for food-related and body-related cues, an elevated overgeneralization for food-related cues, while the valence of the retrieved memories was more negative in response to body-related cues.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study detects disorder-related autobiographical memory alterations in AN, which are intensified in response to symptom-related cues. The findings are discussed with regard to their maladaptive function in emotion regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salatsch
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ingenerf
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Carolin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Imad
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maatouk
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.|Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, SRH Clinic Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weisbrod
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Herzog
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.|Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-Clinic Essen, Clinics and Institute of the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Christoph
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Friederich
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nikendei
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003463:Cues; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology
keywords: anorexia nervosa; autobiographical memory; eating disorders; negativity bias; overgeneral memories