Roberta Tedesco

Visual perception and dissociation during Mirror Gazing Test in patients with anorexia nervosa: a preliminary study.

Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity August 5, 2020 Benedetta Demartini, Veronica Nisticò, Roberta Tedesco et al.

Purpose: It has been widely shown that dissociative features might play a fundamental role in producing body image distortions in patients affected by eating disorders. Here, we hypothesize that the Mirror Gazing Test (MGT), a task consisting in mirror exposure in a condition of sensory deprivation, would elicit dissociative symptoms in a group of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). Methods:...