The Amsterdam Alexithymia Scale: Its Psychometric Values and Correlations with Other Personality Traits

Bermond, Bob; Vorst, Harrie C. M.; Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M.; Gerritsen, Welmoet

doi:10.1159/000012340

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“…None had medical, psychiatric, or traumatic history. Their scores on the Beck depression scale (Beck et al, 1961) and on the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire (Bermond et al, 1999) were within normal ranges.…”

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confidence: 86%

The Locus Ceruleus Is Involved in the Successful Retrieval of Emotional Memories in Humans

et al. 2006

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Emotional memories are better remembered than neutral ones. The amygdala is involved in this enhancement not only by modulating the hippocampal activity, but possibly also by modulating central arousal. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we analyzed the retrieval of neutral faces encoded in emotional or neutral contexts. The pupillary size measured during encoding was used as a modulator of brain responses during retrieval. The interaction between emotion and memory showed significant responses in a set of areas, including the amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus. These areas responded significantly more for correctly remembered faces encoded in an emotional, compared with neutral, context. The same interaction conducted on responses modulated by the pupillary size revealed an area of the dorsal tegmentum of the ponto-mesencephalic region, consistent with the locus ceruleus. Moreover, a psychophysiological interaction showed that amygdalar responses were more tightly related to those of the locus ceruleus when remembering faces that had been encoded in an emotional, rather than neutral, context. These findings suggest that the restoration of a central arousal similar to encoding takes part in the successful retrieval of neutral events learned in an emotional context.

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The Locus Ceruleus Is Involved in the Successful Retrieval of Emotional Memories in Humans

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“…Participants had no medical, psychiatric, traumatic, or sleep disorders. Their scores on Beck Depression Scale (Steer et al, 1997), Beck Anxiety Scale (Beck et al, 1988), and Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire (Bermond et al, 1999) were within normal range. Extreme morning and evening types, as assessed by the Horne-Ostberg Questionnaire (Horne and Ostberg, 1976), were not included.…”

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Sleep Promotes the Neural Reorganization of Remote Emotional Memory

Sterpenich¹,

Albouy²,

Darsaud³

et al. 2009

J. Neurosci.

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Sleep promotes memory consolidation, a process by which fresh and labile memories are reorganized into stable memories. Emotional memories are usually better remembered than neutral ones, even at long retention delays. In this study, we assessed the influence of sleep during the night after encoding onto the neural correlates of recollection of emotional memories 6 months later. After incidental encoding of emotional and neutral pictures, one-half of the subjects were allowed to sleep, whereas the others were totally sleep deprived, on the first postencoding night. During subsequent retest, functional magnetic resonance imaging sessions taking place 3 d and 6 months later, subjects made recognition memory judgments about the previously studied and new pictures. Between these retest sessions, all participants slept as usual at home. At 6 month retest, recollection was associated with significantly larger responses in subjects allowed to sleep than in sleep-deprived subjects, in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) and the precuneus, two areas involved in memory retrieval, as well as in the extended amygdala and the occipital cortex, two regions the response of which was modulated by emotion at encoding. Moreover, the functional connectivity was enhanced between the vMPFC and the precuneus, as well as between the extended amygdala, the vMPFC, and the occipital cortex in the sleep group relative to the sleep-deprived group. These results suggest that sleep during the first postencoding night profoundly influences the long-term systems-level consolidation of emotional memory and modifies the functional segregation and integration associated with recollection in the long term.

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“…In a study [71], it was found that recurrence of breast cancer was significantly less common in women reacting to the disease with denial or a fighting attitude than among those displaying stoic acceptance or feelings of helplessness or hopelessness. Despite more than two decades of research, alexithymia is still a controversial concept, particularly in its assessment [72], psychophysiological correlates [73]and relationships with other affective components [74, 75, 76, 77, 78]. …”

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Psychosomatic Medicine: Emerging Trends and Perspectives

Fava

Sonino

2000

Psychother Psychosom

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Developments have occurred in all aspects of psychosomatic medicine. Among factors affecting individual vulnerability to all types of disease, the following have been highlighted by recent research: recent and early life events, chronic stress and allostatic load, personality, psychological well-being, health attitudes and behavior. As to the interaction between psychological and biological factors in the course and outcome of disease, the presence of psychiatric (DSM-IV) as well as subclinical (Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research) symptoms, illness behavior and the impact on quality of life all need to be assessed. The prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of physical illness include the consideration for psychosomatic prevention, the treatment of psychiatric morbidity and abnormal illness behavior and the use of psychotropic drugs in the medically ill. In the past 60 years, psychosomatic medicine has addressed some fundamental questions, contributing to the growth of other related disciplines, such as psychoneuroendocrinology, psychoimmunology, consultation-liaison psychiatry, behavioral medicine, health psychology and quality of life research. Psychosomatic medicine may also provide a comprehensive frame of reference for several current issues of clinical medicine (the phenomenon of somatization, the increasing occurrence of mysterious symptoms, the demand for well-being and quality of life), including its new dialogue with mind-body and alternative medicine.

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The Amsterdam Alexithymia Scale: Its Psychometric Values and Correlations with Other Personality Traits

Cited by 76 publications

References 43 publications

The Locus Ceruleus Is Involved in the Successful Retrieval of Emotional Memories in Humans

The Locus Ceruleus Is Involved in the Successful Retrieval of Emotional Memories in Humans

Sleep Promotes the Neural Reorganization of Remote Emotional Memory

Psychosomatic Medicine: Emerging Trends and Perspectives

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