Abstract Background and Objective People with fibromyalgia (FM) often report having
difficulty with emotional identification and expression, and this “alexithymia” may contribute …

Methods: The method used for this review satisfies the Preferred Reporting Items for
Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). We identified PsycInfo and PubMed as …

Background Alexithymia is a personality construct characterised by difficulty in identifying
and describing one's emotions. We investigated whether people with alexithymia, who …

Purpose of review Personality characteristics, such as alexithymia, may lead to alterations in
the autonomic nervous system functionality, predisposing individuals to an increased risk of …

Background Chronic pain's influence on emotional well-being can be significant. It may
evoke feelings of despair, frustration, nervousness, and melancholy in individuals, which …

Objectives Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome, and alexithymia, which is a
condition that is characterised by deficits in emotional self-awareness, is highly prevalent …

Here, we report an investigation on the accuracy of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, a
measure to assess alexithymia, a multidimensional construct often associate to fibromyalgia …

Objective This systematic review summarises the studies that have investigated the
relationship between dimensions of social cognition (ie, Theory of Mind–ToM, emotion …

Objectives. Research has pointed to two profiles of persons with fibromyalgia according to
differences in functionality, thus distinguishing between functional and dysfunctional …

Evidence suggests that incidental modulation of affective states affects the ability to keep
track of time. Alexithymia represents an ideal condition to further address the emotion-time …