Emotional face processing in bulimia nervosa: An ERP and source localization study

Objective: Empirical evidence suggests substantial deficits regarding emotion recognition in bulimia nervosa (BN). However, the nature of this impairment is subject of ongoing research. Aim of the current study was to investigate the processing of emotional faces in patients with BN. Methods: Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 22 female patients with BN and 22 matched healthy controls while viewing neutral, happy, fearful, and angry facial expressions, and further analysed by using the brain electrical source localization method (BESA). Subjects' facial recognition performance was tested separate…