Attentional Bias in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Attentional Bias in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) participants will demonstrate greater attentional biases as compared to healthy control (HC) participants. Greater attention bias will be associated with greater distress. Greater attention bias will be associated with greater symptom severity.

Inclusion Criteria for BDD and healthy control participants:

• males and females 18 years of age or older
• sufficient fluency of English to understand study staff, procedures, and questionnaires
• ability to provide informed consent

Inclusion for BDD participants only;

• primary diagnosis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th Edition (DSM-IV-TR) BDD
• BDD Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Disorder score (Y-BOCS) of > 20
• primary facial/head concern

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major medical or neurological conditions
• schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or any other current lifetime DSM-IV psychotic disorder that is not attributable to delusional BDD
• current suicidality
• current homicidality

Exclusion criteria for healthy controls:

• Any current Axis I psychiatric illness
• history of BDD