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 ...

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, 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 ...

Alexithymia is when a person has difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions. It is not a mental health disorder but has links with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating ...

How can you describe what it feels like to have difficulty describing what things feel like? That's the challenge that people with alexithymia face everyday. Alexithymia is a pervasive inability to ...

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 ...

When you first enter therapy, it might be surprisingly difficult to answer the question, "How are you feeling?" Answering that question can be even more of a challenge if you deal with what is known ...