Attitudes and gaps in knowledge of the diagnosis, treatment, and psychopathology of eating disorders among different health professionals.

Background: Health professionals from different specialties in medical and psychological areas play an important role in diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders (EDs). This study aimed to identify gaps in knowledge about the diagnosis, etiology, and management of EDs and to assess health professionals' attitudes towards these illnesses.

Methods: A new questionnaire was developed and validated.

Remember me - user-centered implementation of working memory architectures on an industrial robot.

The present research is innovative as we followed a user-centered approach to implement and train two working memory architectures on an industrial RB-KAIROS + robot: GRU, a state-of-the-art architecture, and WorkMATe, a biologically-inspired alternative. Although user-centered approaches are essential to create a comfortable and safe HRI, they are still rare in industrial settings. Closing this research gap, we conducted two online user studies with large heterogeneous samples.

Childhood maltreatment, alexithymia and eating disorder psychopathology: A mediation model.

Background: The relationship between childhood maltreatment and eating disorder psychopathology has been under-investigated.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of alexithymia in mediating the relationship between childhood maltreatment experiences and eating disorder (ED) symptoms.

Participants And Setting: One-hundred-forty-three women with anorexia nervosa, 110 women with bulimia nervosa and 108 healthy women filled in the Eating Disorder Inventory-2, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20).

What influences psychological functioning in patients with mood disorders? The role of clinical, sociodemographic, and temperamental characteristics in a naturalistic study.

Background: The present study aims to assess clinical and psychological correlates of psychological functioning in patients with mood disorders, in a naturalistic setting. In particular, we aimed to describe which sociodemographic, clinical, and temperamental dispositions are more frequently associated with poor psychological functioning, and to describe the association between cognitive and psychological functioning in euthymic patients with major depression and bipolar disorder.

Methods: Inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) diagnosis of major depression, or bipolar disorder type I or II; (2) age between 18 and 65 years; and (3) being in a stable phase of the disorder.