01844nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001200118653002500130653002000155653001900175653001200194100003100206700001600237700001900253700002600272700002200298245008000320300000900400490000700409520114600416022001401562020001401576       2008                            d  c01/2008bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aPriming10aEmotional processing10aimplicit memory10amorbid obesity10aAnxiety1 aBeatriz Rodríguez García1 aFusari Anna1 aEllgrin Heiner1 aCarmen Gómez Candela1 aAna Isabel de Cos00aEmotional processing bias in patients with type II and III (morbid) obesity  a1-120 v143 aMorbid obesity is a serious chronic disease, associated with psychological disorders. The objective of the current study is to investigate emotional processing biases in two groups: women with obesity and normal weight women, by means of an implicit memory word completion task. The task consisted of completing emotional and neutral words, half of them being new and the other half having been presented in a previous phase. Psychological state was assessed using the I.S.R.A., S.T.A.X.I.-2, and C.T.D. questionnaires, to measure levels of anxiety, anger and depression, respectively. Patients showed higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression than control women. No significant differences were found in the case of anger scores. In the experimental task, morbid obesity women showed better implicit memory with emotional content words than normal weight women. However, patients showed less implicit memory for neutral words than did the control group. These data reveal a non-voluntary memory bias to negative emotional information, showing, additionally, how an excessive food intake is related to affective and cognitive statuses.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437