The current meta-analysis investigated the extent to which personality traits changed as a
result of intervention, with the primary focus on clinical interventions. We identified 207 …

Depression affects around 4–10% of the general population in England. Depression can
often lead to behaviors and thoughts related to suicide and aggression, which have a social …

Patients with depression exhibit high rates of alexithymia, representing a major public health
concern. We sought to examine relationships between depression severity and alexithymia …

Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a highly prevalent, recurrent, and
potentially chronic disorder. Identifying risk factors and underlying mechanisms to inform …

Interoceptive awareness (IA) is associated with emotional experience, the processing of
emotional stimuli, and activation of brain structures that monitor the internal visceral and …

Research investigating the alexithymia construct is advancing rapidly and has broadened
considerably in recent years as a result of interdisciplinary efforts, new methodologies, and …

Recent findings have established a connection between inflammation and major depression
and specifically the role of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis in depression …

OBJECTIVE: We studied the prevalence of alexithymia, its distribution in different age
groups in a wide age range, its association with sociodemographic and health-related …

Background: Alexithymia is characterized by restrictions in the perception, differentiation and
regulation of affects. It is considered to be an important vulnerability factor for the …

Alexithymic individuals have difficulty in recognizing and describing emotions in themselves.
We investigated the neuronal basis of mentalizing in alexithymia to determine whether there …