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Is there a coleration between alexithymia and frontal lobe dysfunction?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
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Background and aims:
According to Sifneos criteria alexithymia is the disability for one person to express and identify emotions. In this study we investigate the possibility of a cerebral localization for alexithymia.
Methods:
We examined 12 patients, 6 men and 6 women, with characteristic alexithymia symptomatology by a complete neurological, neurophysiological (24-hours EEG registration) control and biochemical tests.
We recorded. Compared between them and estimated the results according to a healthy population.
Results:
In all alexithymic patients there were certified significant pathological neurophysiological findings, mostly dysrhythmic epileptoform unloadings in frontal lobe ambilateral. In 9 of 12 patients there were increased amounts of prolactine and homocysteine. All of the patients with alexithymia had limitated REM stage during the hypnogram.
Conclusions:
The results show clearly a cerebral dysfunction of frontal lobe in patients with alexithymia. This fact and the fact that prolactine and homocysteine were increased, can inform us that we have the possibility of an organic dysfunction with genetic disposition.
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- Poster Session 2: Bipolar Disorders
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 22 , Issue S1: 15th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 15th AEP Congress , March 2007 , pp. S254
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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