Reduced contextual influence on decision conflict during delay discounting persists after weight-restoration in anorexia nervosa.

Prior research has investigated whether the capacity of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) to forgo food rewards in their pursuit of thinness may manifest as more delayed gratification in delay discounting tasks, but results have been mixed. In a previous study examining mouse-cursor movement trajectories during a delay discounting task, underweight patients with AN made similar decisions relative to healthy controls, but displayed more stable levels of decision-making conflict. Here, we employed the exact same methods to test whether these changes persist after long-term weight restoration.