ArticleDementia & neuropsychologia
Memory for emotional information and alexithymia A systematic review.
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- An investigation of the specificity and vividness of autobiographical memories and future events produced in response to disgust-related cues among individuals with eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Health Related Quality of Life and Psychopathological Symptoms in People with Hemophilia, Bloodborne Co-Infections and Comorbidities: An Italian Multicenter Observational Study.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Identifying Complex Emotions in Alexithymia Affected Adolescents Using Machine Learning Techniques.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The role of alexithymia and autistic traits in predicting quality of life in an online sample.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2022Article
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- Alexithymia, aggressive behavior and depression among Lebanese adolescents: A cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Alexithymia is a deficit in the recognition, expression and regulation of emotions, which has the following features: difficulty in identifying or describing feelings, difficulty distinguishing between feelings and bodily sensations, stringent imaginal processes, and externally oriented cognitive style. This personality trait is associated with many psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders, as well as with risky behaviors.
objectiveTo investigate whether this trait is also associated with reduced memory for emotional information.
methodsA review of articles investigating the possible damage caused by alexithymia to implicit and explicit memory for emotional information was conducted.
resultsAlthough the studies concerning implicit memory presented divergent results, most studies on explicit memory suggested a deficit for emotional information retention in high-alexithymia individuals.
conclusionThe reviewed data support the notion that the typical increase in episodic memory for emotional information is reduced in high-alexithymia individuals.
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