ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2019
Alexithymia and Treatment Outcome in Anorexia Nervosa: A Scoping Review of the Literature.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Scientometric Review of Alexithymia: Mapping Thematic and Disciplinary Shifts in Half a Century of Research.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Alexithymia in Anorexia Nervosa, More State Than Trait? A Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Emotion Processing in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa, Recovered Patients and Healthy Controls.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Compulsive Skin Picking in Anorexia Nervosa: A Qualitative Study of Emotional and Interoceptive Dysregulation.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Alexithymia and Emotion Recognition Over the Treatment Course in Adolescents and Emerging Adults With Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- The Impact of Expressive Arts Therapy on Alexithymia Levels in Adolescent Inpatients with Severe Anorexia Nervosa.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reconnecting through dissociation: a 5-month follow-up case study on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Cognitive and emotional processing in brothers of individuals with anorexia nervosa: exploring familial cognitive vulnerability.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders: a lived experience-led narrative review.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Is Interoception Deficit Linking Alexithymia and Eating Spectrum Symptoms? Study on a Non-Clinical Sample of Young Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The impact of family alexithymia on the severity of restrictive eating disorders in adolescent patients.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Serum neurofilament light concentrations are associated with cortical thinning in anorexia nervosa.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Investigating Functioning Profile of Adolescents with Anorexia before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study on Mentalizing, Alexithymia, and Impulsiveness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A lived experience response to the proposed diagnosis of terminal anorexia nervosa: learning from iatrogenic harm, ambivalence and enduring hope.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- "I cannot see your fear!" Altered recognition of fearful facial expressions in anorexia nervosa.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Association of Borderline Personality Features and Self-Injury Among Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Adolescents with anorexia nervosa with or without non-suicidal self-injury: clinical and psychopathological features.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Parental-Bonding and Alexithymia in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa, Their Parents, and Siblings.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Alexithymia, dissociation and emotional regulation in eating disorders: Evidence of improvement through specialized inpatient treatment.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2022Article
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Abstract
Alexithymia is of great interest as an outcome predictor of recovery from anorexia nervosa, since it may interfere with both treatment compliance and patients' ability to benefit from the adopted interventions. For this reason, in the last years new treatment approaches targeting emotion identification, expression, and regulation have been applied and tested. Using the PRISMA methodology, we performed a scoping review of the literature about treatment outcome in anorexia nervosa, in terms of changes in alexithymia as assessed by its most commonly used self-report measure, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS). The Medline and Scopus databases were searched, and articles were included if matching the following criteria: dealing with patients affected by anorexia nervosa, without limits of age; involving the application of any kind of targeted therapy or treatment; assessing alexithymia and the effect of a treatment intervention on alexithymia, using the TAS. Ten studies were eventually included; overall, according to the selected studies, alexithymia levels often remain high even after specific treatment. Further research aimed at a deeper understanding of the actual impact of alexithymia on the outcome of anorexia, as well as exploring alternative treatment strategies for alexithymia in eating disorders (EDs), are warranted.
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