People with alexithymia tend to perceive their feelings as purely physical sensations. For example, emotional tension is ...

Conclusions Because alexithymia is a mental state denoting the inability to identify emotions at a cognitive level, one hypothesis is that some patients misattribute autonomic symptoms of anxiety, for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexithymia represents difficulties in affective and cognitive differentiation of emotions characterized by poor verbalization, resomatization, and dedifferentiation of mental and somatic affective ...

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 ...