The TAS-20 more likely measures negative affects rather than alexithymia itself in patients with major depression, panic disorder, eating disorders and substance use disorders

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 972-978

  Marchesi, Carlo ^a,b   Ossola, Paolo ^a   Tonna, Matteo ^b   De Panfilis, Chiara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b AUSL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BULIMIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTHYMIA; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOM; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE 20; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EATING DISORDERS; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898810874     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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