Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to physical, neuropsychological, and emotional
deficits that interfere with the individual's capacity to return to his or her former lifestyle. This …

Humans are highly adept at differentiating, regulating, and responding to their emotions. At
the core of all these functions is emotional awareness: the conscious feeling states that are …

Objective: Alexithymia has been considered a personality trait characterized by difficulties
identifying and describing feelings and an externally oriented thinking style. A high rate of …

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing
feelings and is associated with psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders. The mechanisms …

The frequency of alexithymia and the proportion of cases reporting low emotional empathy
after traumatic brain injury (TBI) were compared with a control group. The study also …

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice is the first book to offer
an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF) …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can seriously disrupt the social and communication skills that
are basic requirements for everyday life. It is the loss of these interpersonal skills that can be …

Social cognition is widely regarded as an essential skill with which to understand the social
world. Despite this, the role that social cognition plays in outcome, and whether deficits are …

Objectives: To examine the acceptability and initial efficacy of an emotional self-awareness
treatment at reducing alexithymia and emotion dysregulation in participants with traumatic …

Neuroscience was an integral part of psychosomatic medicine at its inception in the early
20th century. Since the mid-20th century, however, psychosomatic research has largely …