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IMPAIRED COLOUR-NAMING OF CLINICALLY SALIENT WORDS AS A MEASURE OF RECOVERY IN ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

Michael W. Green ,
Anthony Wakeling ,
Nicola A. Elliman  and
Peter J. Rogers
Michael W. Green
Affiliation:
Institute of Food Research, Reading, U.K.
Anthony Wakeling
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, U.K.
Nicola A. Elliman
Affiliation:
Institute of Food Research, Reading, U.K.
Peter J. Rogers
Affiliation:
Institute of Food Research, Reading, U.K.
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Abstract

The colour-naming performance of a group of hospitalized anorexic women (N=12) was tested on initial admission, after 1 week of treatment and again after 12 weeks of treatment. Compared to a control population of non-clinical females (N=18), the anorexics colour-named both food and body shape words more slowly than their neutral matched words; although colour-naming times, in general, were slower for anorexics. The size of this colour-naming impairment decreased as a function of weight gain and improvement in psychopathology, although colour-naming times for food words improved more quickly than for body shape words for both clinical and non-clinical subjects. The results of correlational analysis between colour-naming times and Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI-2) responses lead to the conclusion that colour-naming performance for body shape, rather than food words, provides a clearer index of improvement in psychopathological status in anorexia nervosa.

Keywords

Anorexia nervosaSroop tasktherapy
Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 53 - 62
Copyright
© 1998 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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