Brain structural correlates of alexithymia in patients with major depressive disorder

K Förster, V Enneking, K Dohm, R Redlich… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2020 - jpn.ca
Background: Alexithymia is a risk factor for major depressive disorder (MDD) and has been
associated with diminished treatment response. Neuroimaging studies have revealed …

Neural connectivity of alexithymia: Specific association with major depressive disorder

NSP Ho, MMC Wong, TMC Lee - Journal of affective disorders, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Alexithymia has been frequently associated with major depression disorders
(MDD). Yet little is known about the exact relationship of alexithymia and MDD. In order to …

[HTML][HTML] Regional homogeneity of intrinsic brain activity related to the main alexithymia dimensions

D Han, M Li, M Mei, X Sun - General Psychiatry, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective This study aims to investigate the neuronal correlates of each alexithymia
dimension by examining the regional homogeneity (ReHo) of intrinsic brain activity in a …

Alexithymia is associated with altered cortical thickness networks in the general population

J Terock, S Frenzel, K Wittfeld, J Klinger-König… - …, 2020 - karger.com
Background: Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying and
describing emotions and associated with various psychiatric disorders. Neuroimaging …

Alexithymia is related to differences in gray matter volume: a voxel-based morphometry study

K Ihme, U Dannlowski, V Lichev, A Stuhrmann… - Brain research, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective: Alexithymia has been characterized as the inability to identify and describe
feelings. Functional imaging studies have revealed that alexithymia is linked to reactivity …

Distinct associations of insula and cingulate volume with the cognitive and affective dimensions of alexithymia

KS Goerlich-Dobre, L Bruce, S Martens, A Aleman… - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Alexithymia (“no words for feelings”) is a major risk factor for psychosomatic and psychiatric
conditions characterized by affect dysregulation. The alexithymia personality construct …

Dissociable morphometric profiles of the affective and cognitive dimensions of alexithymia

J van der Velde, MJ van Tol, KS Goerlich-Dobre… - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
Alexithymia (“no words for feelings”) is a psychological construct that can be divided in a
cognitive and affective dimension. The cognitive dimension reflects the ability to identify …

The embodied emotion in cerebellum: a neuroimaging study of alexithymia

D Laricchiuta, L Petrosini, E Picerni, D Cutuli… - Brain Structure and …, 2015 - Springer
Neuroimaging studies have indicated that people with alexithymia show structural and
functional alterations in brain areas associated with emotional awareness, as amygdala …

Neuroanatomical profiles of alexithymia dimensions and subtypes

KS Goerlich‐Dobre, M Votinov, U Habel… - Human brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Alexithymia, a major risk factor for a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders, has
been recognized to comprise two dimensions, a cognitive dimension (difficulties identifying …

Alexithymia and brain gray matter volumes in a general population sample

HJ Grabe, K Wittfeld, K Hegenscheid… - Human brain …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Alexithymia is perceived as a personality construct involving deficits in the cognitive
processing of emotion. Brain areas that process emotions might be structurally altered in …