Neural activity during interoceptive awareness and its associations with alexithymia – An fMRI study in major depressive disorder and non-psychiatric controls

Objective: Alexithymia relates to difficulties recognizing and describing emotions. It has been linked to subjectively increased interoceptive awareness (IA) and to psychiatric illnesses such as major depressive disorder (MDD) and somatization. MDD in turn is characterized by aberrant emotion proces...

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Main Authors: Christine eWiebking, Georg eNorthoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00589/full