Why Are Some People Unable To Express Their Emotions?
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 16:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Italian investigators have published a new study on the neurobiologic correlates of the inability to express emotions (alexithymia). A deficit in interhemispheric transfer was hypothesized in alexithymia more than 30 years ago, following the observation that split-brain patients manifest certain alexithymic characteristics.
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