Alexithymia and cortisol awakening response in people with eating disorders.
Giammarco CascinoAlessio Maria MonteleoneFrancesca MarcielloFrancesca PellegrinoValeria RuzziPalmiero MonteleonePublished 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.
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