Affective agnosia: a core affective processing deficit in the alexithymia spectrum

Abstract Affective agnosia, an impairment in knowing how one feels emotionally, has been described as an extreme deficit in the experience and expression of emotion that may confer heightened risk for adverse medical outcomes. Alexithymia, by contrast, has been proposed as an over-arching construct...

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Main Authors: Richard D. Lane, Mark Solms, Karen L. Weihs, Alex Hishaw, Ryan Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BioPsychoSocial Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13030-020-00184-w