Neural correlates of alexithymia: A meta-analysis of emotion processing studies

J van der Velde, MN Servaas, KS Goerlich… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in the experience and cognitive
processing of emotions. It is considered a risk factor for a range of psychiatric and …

[HTML][HTML] The alexithymic brain: the neural pathways linking alexithymia to physical disorders

M Kano, S Fukudo - BioPsychoSocial medicine, 2013 - Springer
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing
feelings and is associated with psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders. The mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroimaging studies of alexithymia: physical, affective, and social perspectives

Y Moriguchi, G Komaki - BioPsychoSocial medicine, 2013 - Springer
Alexithymia refers to difficulty in identifying and expressing one's emotions, and it is related
to disturbed emotional regulation. It was originally proposed as a personality trait that plays …

Alexithymia influences brain activation during emotion perception but not regulation

J van der Velde, PM Gromann, M Swart… - Social Cognitive and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Alexithymia is a psychological construct that can be divided into a cognitive and affective
dimension. The cognitive dimension is characterized by difficulties in identifying, verbalizing …

Alexithymia and automatic processing of emotional stimuli: a systematic review

US Donges, T Suslow - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2017 - degruyter.com
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in recognizing and verbalizing
emotions and the utilization of a cognitive style that is oriented toward external events, rather …

The neurocognition of alexithymia: evidence from neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies

E Wingbermühle, H Theunissen… - Acta …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Objective: Alexithymia refers to an ineffective regulation and expression of emotions. It
constitutes a major risk factor for a range of medical and psychiatric problems, including …

Cognitive-emotional processing in alexithymia: an integrative review

O Luminet, KA Nielson, N Ridout - Cognition and Emotion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct characterised by difficulties identifying
one's feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, difficulties describing one's …

[HTML][HTML] The multifaceted nature of alexithymia–a neuroscientific perspective

KS Goerlich - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neuroscientific studies have mostly employed the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-
20;) for the assessment of alexithymia, a self-report scale that assesses the alexithymia …

Alexithymia is related to differences in gray matter volume: a voxel-based morphometry study

K Ihme, U Dannlowski, V Lichev, A Stuhrmann… - Brain research, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective: Alexithymia has been characterized as the inability to identify and describe
feelings. Functional imaging studies have revealed that alexithymia is linked to reactivity …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of the alexithymic brain: A parametric coordinate-based meta-analysis

P Xu, EM Opmeer, MJ van Tol, KS Goerlich… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alexithymia refers to deficiencies in identifying and expressing emotions. This might be
related to changes in structural brain volumes, but its neuroanatomical basis remains …