The cognitive and affective alexithymia dimensions in the regulation of sympathetic responses

Bermond, Bob; Bierman, Dick J.; Cladder, M.A.; Moormann, Peter; Vorst, Harrie C. M.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.11.004

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“…Since its signs were observed in both the genders along with other alexithymia associated clinical symptoms. However the levels of depression may differ in males and females but it alters the acuity of emotional prosody in both the sexes [23,24]. Consequently, it is crucial to take alexithymia dimensions into consideration and also to control for levels of depression in future studies on prosodic perception in alexithymia.…”

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Prevalence of Alexithymia in the General Adult Population of Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan

Khan¹

2017

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Alexithymia is recognized as a medical condition in which an individual fails to express his feelings rather suppressing their thoughts and face difficulties in distinctive emotions leading to a number of neuropsychiatric issues. By means of measuring emotional intensity based on the professed reality of external stimuli, inferences could be drawn to indicate distinctive response patterns of such individuals. Therefore incidence of alexithymia was studied in the general adult population of Quetta Balochistan by using a well-recognized measuring scale TAS-20. High prevalence of alexithymia was found in both the genders i.e., Males (93%) and Females (87%) suggesting that predominance of negative emotional experiences and disturbed cognitive functioning in alexithymia may result in unstable mental status of individuals with conditions like somatic complaints, anxiety, depression and even social dysfunction.

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Prevalence of Alexithymia in the General Adult Population of Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan

Khan¹

2017

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“…There are two separate approaches to explain the patterns of autonomic nervous system activity in relation to alexithymia. Linden et al (1996) and Bermond et al (2010) Page 19 hyperarousal in persons with alexithymia, (Papciak et al 1985;Stone et Nielson, 2001), likely the result of a decoupling of subjective stress-appraisals and autonomic responses (Martin and Pihl, 1985). According to the decoupling hypothesis increased norepinephrine reflects greater efforts to meet the demands of a stressful experience while lower cortisol indicates the absence of behavioral consequences (Henry et al 1992).…”

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Global stress response during a social stress test: Impact of alexithymia and its subfactors

Hua

Scanff

Larue

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Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Please cite this article as: Hua, J., Le Scanff, C., Larue, J., José, F., Martin, J.-C., Devillers, L., Filaire, E.,Global stress response during a social stress test: impact of alexithymia and its subfactors, Psychoneuroendocrinology (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.psyneuen.2014.08.003 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Page 1 of 35A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t Highlights  We study the association between alexithymia and its subfactors with HPA and SAM activity.  Stress was induced experimentally using a public-speaking paradigm.  The increased HPA activity was related to only one alexithymia subfactor, DIFF.Page 2 Summary:Objectives: Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing and communicating one's own emotions. Recent studies have associated specific effects of this trait and its subfactors with hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis markers during stress. The aim of this study was to analyze the association between alexithymia and its subfactors with HPA and sympatho-adrenal medullar (SAM) activity. Stress was induced experimentally using a public-speaking paradigm. Salivary cortisol, Alpha-amylase (AA), chromogranin A (CgA) and heart rate (HR) were collected during the defined periods of baseline, stress, and recovery in 19 males and 24 female healthy university students.Results: Subjects reacted to the stressor with a significant cortisol and SAM response. Subjects scoring high on alexithymia reacted significantly more intensely than low scorers in basal anticipatory as well as peak cortisol and area under the curve. Regression analyses revealed that the increased HPA activity was related to only one alexithymia subfactor, the difficulty in differentiating feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations and emotion arousal.Conclusion: Alexithymia and its subfactors were specifically related to cortisol responses. This research should be replicated with more subjects and should take into account more parameters reflecting sympathetic and/or parasympathetic activation, as well as HPA axis. Factors such as coping strategies and the perception of the situation as a challenge have also to be explored.

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“…Some studies have suggested that alexithymia is related to blunted sympathetic activation (Bermond, Bierman, Cladder, Moormann, & Vorst, 2010;Neumann, Sollers, Thayer, & Waldstein, 2004), while others have suggested the augmented sympathetic activation in high alexithymia scorers (Infrasca, 1997;Waldstein, Kauhanen, Neumann, & Katzel, 2002) or had found no effect (Connelly & Denney, 2007). Other researchers have proposed that alexithymia can affect physiological arousal change differently depending on variation in specific factors: e.g., stimulation vs. recovery period of affect regulation (Neumann et al, 2004), mental vs. emotional load of situation (Franz, Schaefer, & Schneider, 2003), or alexithymia's cognitive vs. emotional component (Bermond et al, 2010).…”

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An externally oriented style of thinking as a moderator of responses to affective films in women

Davydov

Luminet

Zech

2013

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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The cognitive and affective alexithymia dimensions in the regulation of sympathetic responses

Cited by 55 publications

References 64 publications

Prevalence of Alexithymia in the General Adult Population of Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan

Prevalence of Alexithymia in the General Adult Population of Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan

Global stress response during a social stress test: Impact of alexithymia and its subfactors

An externally oriented style of thinking as a moderator of responses to affective films in women

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