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Impaired emotion recognition is linked to alexithymia in heroin addicts.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between alexithymia and substance use: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Alexithymia and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Alexithymia and Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- A Patient-Tailored Evidence-Based Approach for Developing Early Neuropsychological Training Programs in Addiction Settings.Neuropsychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Childhood abuse and craving in methamphetamine-dependent individuals: the mediating role of alexithymia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- Evidence of abnormal scalar timing property in alexithymia.PloS one · 2023Article
- Neuro-Inflammaging and Psychopathological Distress.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Motives for prescription opioid use: The role of alexithymia and distress tolerance.The American journal on addictions · 2022Article
- Editorial: Psychological Factors as Determinants of Medical Conditions, Volume II.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Alexithymia, Dissociation, and Family Functioning in a Sample of Online Gamblers: A Moderated Mediation Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Impaired Insight and Self-Awareness in Substance Use Disorder.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2021Article
- Alexithymia Is Linked with a Negative Bias for Past and Current Events in Healthy Humans.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- No Evidence of Perceptual Pseudoneglect in Alexithymia.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Alexithymia, Emotional Distress, and Perceived Quality of Life in Patients With Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Impact of polysubstance use on social and non-affective cognitive performance among treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol use disorders.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Going Beyond the Visible in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Defense Mechanisms and Their Associations With Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Facilitation of Crossmodal Integration During Emotional Prediction in Methamphetamine Dependents.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2019Article
- Editorial: Psychological Factors as Determinants of Medical Conditions.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Cognitive and socio-cognitive functioning of chronic non-medical prescription opioid users.Psychopharmacology · 2018Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Several investigations document altered emotion processing in opiate addiction. Nevertheless, the origin of this phenomenon remains unclear. Here we examined the role of alexithymia in the ability (i.e., number of errors-accuracy and reaction times-RTs) of thirty-one heroin addicts and thirty-one healthy controls to detect several affective expressions. Results show generally lower accuracy and higher RTs in the recognition of facial expressions of emotions for patients, compared to controls. The hierarchical multivariate regression analysis shows that alexithymia might be responsible of the between groups difference with respect to the RTs in emotion detection. Overall, we provide new insights in the clinical interpretation of affective deficits in heroin addicts suggesting a role of alexithymia in their ability to recognize emotions.
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