The neurobiology of interoception in health and disease

L Quadt, HD Critchley… - Annals of the New York …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Interoception is the sensing of internal bodily sensations. Interoception is an umbrella term
that encompasses (1) the afferent (body‐to‐brain) signaling through distinct neural and …

Alexithymia and eating disorders: a critical review of the literature

ME Nowakowski, T McFarlane, S Cassin - Journal of eating disorders, 2013 - Springer
Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying feelings and differentiating between
feelings and bodily sensations, difficulties communicating feelings, and a concrete cognitive …

The body in the mind: on the relationship between interoception and embodiment

BM Herbert, O Pollatos - Topics in cognitive science, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The processing, representation, and perception of bodily signals (interoception) plays an
important role for human behavior. Theories of embodied cognition hold that higher …

Emotion generation and regulation in anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of self-report data

A Oldershaw, T Lavender, H Sallis, D Stahl… - Clinical psychology …, 2015 - Elsevier
This systematic review sought to examine the generation and regulation of emotion in
people with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Key databases (Medline, Embase, PsychINFO and Web …

Dealing with feelings: characterization of trait alexithymia on emotion regulation strategies and cognitive-emotional processing

M Swart, R Kortekaas, A Aleman - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Alexithymia, or “no words for feelings”, is a personality trait which is associated
with difficulties in emotion recognition and regulation. It is unknown whether this deficit is …

Reduced perception of bodily signals in anorexia nervosa

O Pollatos, AL Kurz, J Albrecht, T Schreder… - Eating behaviors, 2008 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Interoceptive awareness is known to be impaired in eating disorders. To date, it
has remained unclear whether this variable is related to the construct of interoceptive …

[HTML][HTML] Alexithymia in eating disorders: Systematic review and meta-analyses of studies using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale

H Westwood, J Kerr-Gaffney, D Stahl… - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this review was to synthesise the literature on the use of the Toronto
Alexithymia Scale (TAS) in eating disorder populations and Healthy Controls (HCs) and to …

Altered social hedonic processing in eating disorders

K Tchanturia, H Davies, A Harrison… - … Journal of Eating …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Exploring social anhedonia in eating disorders (ED) was the main objective of this
study. Social anhedonia relates to a reduced feeling of pleasure from social stimulation …

Parental bonding and alexithymia: A meta-analysis

FA Thorberg, RMD Young, KA Sullivan… - European …, 2011 - cambridge.org
AimThe primary purpose of this meta-analysis was to explore, clarify and report the strength
of the relationship between alexithymia, as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS …

Emotion regulation strategies in patients with schizophrenia

L van der Meer, M van't Wout, A Aleman - Psychiatry research, 2009 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia patients might experience difficulties in applying two widely used emotion
regulation strategies, reappraisal and suppression. We investigated the relationships among …