Look at Food and Lose Your Fear - Evaluation of a Computerized Attention Training (CAT) for Anorexia Nervosa Patients (CAT)
Anorexia Nervosa
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Anorexia Nervosa focused on measuring Eating Disorders, Anorexia Nervosa, Attention bias, Attention bias modification
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- BMI < 18.5 5 kg/m2
- Current diagnosis of AN-restricting type, AN-Binge/purging type or Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) - Anorexia type
- Fluent in English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently taking a dose of any psychoactive medication that has not been stable for at least 14 days prior to participation in the study
- Currently meeting the diagnostic criteria of another major psychiatric disorder (e.g., major depressive disorder, substance dependence, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) needing treatment in its own right
- Learning and developmental impairments
- If the disorder is currently life threatening
- If patients are currently suicidal
- If patients are currently having extreme physiological complications or co-morbid alcohol and drug-abuse disorders
Sites / Locations
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and NeuroscienceRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
CAT active attention bias modification
CAT sham bias modification
Active computerized attention training (CAT). Attention training via repeated trials of a modified anti-saccade task with concurrent assessment of eye-movements intended to direct attention towards food stimuli using pictorial food and non-food stimuli (see Werthmann, Field, Roefs, Nederkoorn, & Jansen, 2014).
Sham computerized attention training. Attention training via repeated trials of a modified anti-saccade task with concurrent assessment of eye-movements not intended to change attention processing of food stimuli using pictures of two different non-food stimuli categories (e.g. household and musical instruments).