Deficits in response inhibition on varied levels of demand load in anorexia nervosa: an event-related potentials study
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the executive function of inhibitory control in anorexia nervosa (AN), which is considered as an underlying pathophysiology of restricting eating. In this work, we examined the function of response inhibition in 27 unmedicated AN patients and 30 healthy controls (HC) using stop-signal tasks with different demand loads. Two event-related potentials (ERP) during the stop-signal tasks, N2 and P300, were compared between the AN and HC groups. We found attenuated P300 amplitudes and delayed N2 latencies in AN patients across all three demand loads compared to HCs. We also found significant interaction between group and level of demand load. N2 latencies were prolonged when the inhibitory demand was lower in the AN group, whereas no differences in N2 latencies were found across different demand loads in HCs. Taken together, altered P300 amplitudes and N2 latencies may be associated with impaired response inhibition in AN patients. In particular, alterations of fronto-central N2 activations were demand-related, which might contribute to an aberrant inhibitory control process in AN. Level II, controlled trial without randomization.
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