Tactile stimulus discrimination in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a behavioral and neurophysiological study
Jule Romea Lammers, Hugo Romero Frausto, Anke Dalhoff, Selina Hansen, Kati Roesmann, Markus Junghöfer, Ida Wessing · 2026
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Jule Romea Lammers and co-authors test, in 2026, touch perception in teenage girls with anorexia nervosa, a condition where body size is persistently overestimated. Whether faulty touch processing feeds that distorted body image was unclear. The study paired behavior tests with brain recordings.
Thirty-six patients and 41 matched healthy peers took part. Touch detection thresholds were normal in the patient group, but counting rare touch signals and telling stimuli apart went worse. Brain responses, measured by combined electric and magnetic recordings, separated rare from standard stimuli equally in both groups. Overall activity in two rear brain areas tied to body representation ran lower in patients. The authors infer the deficit lies in integrating touch into a body picture, not in sensing it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jule Romea Lammers, Hugo Romero Frausto, Anke Dalhoff, Selina Hansen, Kati Roesmann, Markus Junghöfer, Ida Wessing |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40667 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |