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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychology. 2010 Nov;24(6):808–812. doi: 10.1037/a0019806

Table 2.

Iowa Gambling Task scores between the three groups

Anorexia Nervosa Bulimia Nervosa N=38 Healthy Control N=83

Whole Anorexic N=49 Anorexia restrictive N=37 Anorexia Purging N=12 p-value p-value
Total Net Score Median [min-max] 8 [−46–62] 8 [−42–62] 7 [−46–54] 0.89 4 [−64–96] 2 [−40–64] 0.98
1–20 net score Median [min-max] −2 [−12–20] −2 [−12–20] −4 [−8–20] 0.41 −4 [−20–16] −4 [−20–20] 0.37
21–40 net score Median [min-max] 0 [−12–20] 0 [−12–12] 4 [−6–20] 0.13 0 [−12–20] 0 [−18–20] 0.80
41–60 net score Median [min-max] 0 [−20–20] −2 [−12–18] 4 [−20–20] 0.52 1 [−18–20] 2 [−12–20] 0.35
61–80 net score Median [min-max] 2 [−20–20] 2 [−16–20] 1 [−20–20] 0.43 3 [−20–20] 2 [−20–20] 0.87
81–100 net score Median [min-max] 4 [−16–20] 4 [−12–20] 2 [−16–20] 0.77 0 [−16–20] 4 [−20–20] 0.94

Knowledge of the task n (%)
 None 22 (45.8) 18 (50.0) 4 (33.3) NA 17 (44.8) 29 (34.9) 0.49
 Intermediate 7 (14.6) 4 (11.1) 3 (25.0) 7 (18.4) 22 (26.5)
 Full 19 (39.6) 14 (38.9) 5 (41.7) 14 (36.8) 32 (38.6)

NA: Chi2 Not Applicable

Comparison IGT Score between anorexia restrictive and anorexia purging

Comparison of IGT Scores between anorexia nervosa subjects, bulimia nervosa subjects and healthy controls