SYDNEY — Alexithymia is an independent risk factor for impulsive-compulsive disorders (ICDs) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), a study indicates. Alexithymia is a personality trait ...

The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of alexithymia and emotional dysregulation in women with vaginismus not associated with other organic or psychopathological disorders. The study ...

Alexithymia, a personality construct denoting difficulty in identifying, describing and reflecting on one’s own emotions, co-occurs frequently with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and has been ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. All of us sometimes find ourselves at a loss for words, unable to describe our experience in the moment. When you receive unexpected news or have to ...

Alexithymia is a term you may not have heard before. But it describes something many people experience: difficulties in identifying, distinguishing and expressing emotions. It affects how people ...

Psychopathic people have great difficulty or are even unable to show empathy and regulate their emotions. According to a new study by Matthias Burghart, a Max Planck researcher in Freiburg, this could ...

Imagine feeling a knot in your stomach, or your heart racing, and being unable to tell whether you are feeling anger, anxiety, or excitement. For millions of people around the globe, this is a daily ...

How do you feel today? For some people, it's an easy question to answer. You might be amazed, angry, annoyed, anxious or ashamed. But for others, describing their emotions can be much more difficult.