Alexithymia is closely related to one’s sense of interoception, which is the ability to interpret and label one’s internal states.People with reduced interoception, also referred to as ...

Saffron says her life is more complicated due to being autistic and having aphantasia and alexithymia Saffron Anderton was at university when she was diagnosed as autistic. The 22-year-old ...

Select the journal/section where you want your idea to be submitted: The term alexithymia derives from the Greek “a lexis thymos” (literally “having no words for emotions”) and was first coined by ...

Aim The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether impaired emotional processing at the cognitive level (alexithymia) is present in patients affected by FMS. We conducted a cross-sectional study ...

Objectives: Previous research on alexithymia has led to controversy over its prevalence in panic disorder. The aim of this study was to assess the difference in the prevalence of alexithymia in panic ...

It is believed that 5 to 19% of the population bares alexithymia and that those with high degree of the condition have more of several dysfunctions, including chronic pain syndromes (CPS), in which it ...

2016). Given its role in emotional processing, Alexithymia, which is believed to be more prevalent in autistic populations, may also play a role in the interaction between autism, interoception, and ...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between alexithymia, emotion facial recognition, and emotion facial expression in PD patients. Method Forty-one PD patients and seventeen healthy ...