Blunted emotion-modulated startle reflex in anorexia nervosa.
Timo BrockmeyerJudith PellegrinoChristoph MaierHannah M MünchCatherine J HarmerStephan WaltherWolfgang HerzogHans-Christoph FriederichPublished in: The International journal of eating disorders (2019)
The findings support the assumption that underweight is associated with attenuated emotional reactivity to fear-eliciting material in AN. This is in line with the hypothesis that starvation and low body weight constitute a maladaptive mechanism of emotion regulation in AN, contributing to the maintenance of the disorder.