Dr. Romy Weiland
Full member: March 2007 - February 2010
Dissertation title: Facial and Affective Responses to Gustatory and Olfactory Stimuli in Healthy Adults, Patients with Eating Disorders and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Abstract: Three studies investigated whether taste- and odor-elicited facial reactions are altered in healthy adults (1), patients with eating disorders (AN, BN, BED) (2), and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (3). (1) Adults’ facial reactions to tastes and odors were mostly comparable to those facial reactions in newborns. (2) BN and BED patients displayed more taste-elicited facial reactions, presumably due to a greater impulsivity. Moreover, their gustofacial response elicited by the sweet taste was altered. (3) BN and ADHD patients suffer from a inhibitory deficits as indicated by more spontaneous taste-elicited facial reactions, and by more reactions in ADHD patients during facial suppression.
Principal investigator:
Prof. Dr. P. Pauli
Department of Psychology I, Marcusstraße 9-11, 97070 Würzburg
Current position:
Institut für Psychotherapie und Medizinische Psychologie, Marcusstr. 9 - 11 97070 Würzburg
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