informed that refusing participation would have no effect on the
quality of their medical treatment.
Fifty-six healthy women were recruited at a university and consented
to serve as members of the control group. The control participants
were healthy, normal-weight people recruited at a
university and in the environment of the investigator. A clinical
interview conducted by the psychologist in charge of the study ensured
that patients and controls who suffered from neurological
disorders, comorbid posttraumatic stress disorders, intellectual
deficits, recent histories of drug or alcohol abuse, psychoses or
bipolar disorder were excluded from this study. Table 1 provides
group characteristics.