Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in identifying, differentiating and describing
feelings. A high prevalence of alexithymia has often been observed in clinical disorders …

Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in
the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to …

This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field
undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As …

The greater expansion of the frontal lobes along the phylogeny scale has been interpreted
as the signature of evolutionary changes underlying higher cognitive abilities in humans …

Abstract Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA), heart rate, and accuracy and latency of
emotion recognition were evaluated in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and …

During communication, we perceive and express emotional information through many
different channels, including facial expressions, prosody, body motion, and posture …

Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that labeling one's emotional
experiences and perceptions alters those states. Here, we used a comprehensive meta …

Recent work on the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) has lead to substantively different
theoretical branches, of its putative functions, that have in some part developed …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Theoretical perspectives suggest that the mirror neuron system (MNS) is an important
neurobiological contributor to empathy, yet empirical support is mixed. Here, we adopt a …