Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion faces

M Reker, P Ohrmann, AV Rauch, H Kugel, J Bauer… - Cortex, 2010 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is considered a dimensional personality trait that refers to a cluster of deficits in
the recognition, differentiation, and verbalization of emotions. Research on the neurobiology …

Specific brain processing of facial expressions in people with alexithymia: an H215O‐PET study

M Kano, S Fukudo, J Gyoba, M Kamachi, M Tagawa… - Brain, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Alexithymia is a personal trait characterized by a reduced ability to identify and describe
one's own feelings and is known to contribute to a variety of physical and behavioural …

Alexithymic features and automatic amygdala reactivity to facial emotion

H Kugel, M Eichmann, U Dannlowski, P Ohrmann… - Neuroscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
Alexithymic individuals have difficulties in identifying and verbalizing their emotions. The
amygdala is known to play a central role in processing emotion stimuli and in generating …

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 …

An investigation of facial emotion recognition impairments in alexithymia and its neural correlates

S Jongen, N Axmacher, NAW Kremers… - Behavioural brain …, 2014 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is a personality trait that involves difficulties identifying emotions and describing
feelings. It is hypothesized that this includes facial emotion recognition but limited …

Alexithymic features and the labeling of brief emotional facial expressions–An fMRI study

K Ihme, J Sacher, V Lichev, N Rosenberg, H Kugel… - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
The ability to recognize subtle facial expressions can be valuable in social interaction to
infer emotions and intentions of others. Research has shown that the personality trait of …

Alexithymia: a right hemisphere dysfunction specific to recognition of certain facial expressions?

M Jessimer, R Markham - Brain and cognition, 1997 - Elsevier
The most prominent features of alexithymic people are a demonstrated reduction in the
ability to identify and to describe their own feelings. In recent years, these characteristics …

Deficits in early emotional reactivity in alexithymia

O Pollatos, A Schubö, BM Herbert, E Matthias… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Alexithymia is characterized by a difficulty in identifying and describing one's emotions. This
study addressed the question of whether alexithymic tendencies are related to limited …

Effect of impaired recognition and expression of emotions on frontocingulate cortices: an fMRI study of men with alexithymia

S Berthoz, E Artiges… - american Journal of …, 2002 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: Although the brain areas involved in emotional response and in the recognition
of others' emotions have been reported, the neural bases of individual differences in …

Increased activation of the supragenual anterior cingulate cortex during visual emotional processing in male subjects with high degrees of alexithymia: an event …

A Heinzel, R Schäfer, HW Müller, A Schieffer… - Psychotherapy and …, 2010 - karger.com
Background: One of the most prominent neurobiological models of alexithymia assumes an
altered function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as the crucial neural correlate of …