Sandra Rydberg Dobrescu

Anorexia nervosa is a severe and disabling mental illness that mainly affects adolescent females. It carries a considerable risk of a chronic course and the mortality rate in anorexia nervosa is among the highest of all mental disorders. Reference Arcelus, Mitchell, Wales and Nielsen1 The peak age of anorexia nervosa onset occurs in adolescence at a crucial stage in a young individual’s educational and psychosocial development.

Weak central coherence was found in weight-recovered adolescent females with anorexia nervosa (AN); a finding which is in line with previous speculations regarding the endophenotype of AN. Some support was found for a father-daughter association regarding central coherence. Set-shifting deficits could not be detected in the young females with a short duration of AN. 1 Introduction Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder, predominantly affecting adolescent females.

1 INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with an elevated mortality risk (van Eeden et al., 2021). AN is highly familial and the heritability estimated from twin studies is at least 50% (Sullivan et al., 2018; Yilmaz et al., 2015). The lifetime prevalence in females is up to 2% for strictly defined AN, and up to 4% when using a broader definition of the disease (Treasure et al., 2015; van Eeden et al., 2021).