Attention allocation to illness-compatible information discriminates women with active versus weight-recovered anorexia nervosa.

Attention deployment is partly changed in WRAN as compared to the acute AN group, especially with regard to a shift away from illness-compatible stimuli (physical activity), and this might be a useful recovery criterion. Valence rating of food stimuli might be an additional useful tool to distinguish between acutely ill and weight-recovered individuals. Attentional biases for illness-compatible stimuli might qualify as a valuable approach to defining recovery in AN.