Alexithymia and cortisol awakening response in people with eating disorders.

Giammarco Cascino Alessio Maria MonteleoneFrancesca MarcielloFrancesca PellegrinoValeria RuzziPalmiero Monteleone

Published in: The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2020)

These results confirm the presence of a more severe specific psychopathology in alexithymic individuals with AN and show, for the first time, an association between alexithymia and a dampened basal activity of the HPA axis in BN.

Keyphrases

early onset
anorexia nervosa
drug induced