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  • Negative priming for threatening vs. non-threatening information in body dysmorphic disorder

  • Sabine Wilhelm, Ulrike Buhlmann, Richard J McNally
  • Journal:
    Acta Neuropsychiatrica / Volume 15 / Issue 4 / August 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 June 2014, pp. 180-183
  • Background:

    Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) suffer from unpleasant, repetitive thoughts about imagined defects in appearance which are difficult to control.

    Objective:

    The purpose of this study was to test for deficits in cognitive inhibition in BDD.

    Methods:

    To test for deficits in cognitive inhibition in BDD, we applied a negative priming paradigm. Specifically, we explored whether BDD patients exhibit greater deficits in cognitive inhibition when lexical targets are threatening than when they are non-threatening.

    Results:

    Surprisingly, BDD patients exhibited deficits in cognitive inhibition only for non-threatening but not for threatening information.

    Conclusions:

    Although BDD patients often describe their negative thoughts about their appearance as distressing, they may experience them as valid and thus may not try to control them.