Introduction Suicide attempts are a significant global public health concern. Research into
non-traditional factors, such as the presence of alexithymia, may shed light on the prediction …

This paper examines the relationship between emotions, depression and eating disorders.
Initially, a review is undertaken of the current state of the research and clinical literature with …

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 …

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 …

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

OBJECTIVES: There is an ongoing debate concerning the temporal stability of alexithymia.
Most previous studies have been conducted on clinical populations of psychiatric and …

Background For a long time, Lebanon has been considered an unstable country. This can
have a negative impact on Lebanese adolescents that consequently face secondary …

Despite a wealth of research on the validity of alexithymia and its association with a number
of common medical and psychiatric disorders, the fundamental question of whether …

The objective was to study alexithymia and its relationship with anxiety and depression in
eating disorders (ED) in a Spanish sample. One hundred and fifty-one females with an …

Background: Controversy still exists concerning the stability of the alexithymia construct.
Also, although alexithymia has been found to be related in a theoretically meaningful way to …