Affective agnosia: Expansion of the alexithymia construct and a new opportunity to integrate and extend Freud's legacy

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 594-611

  Lane, Richard D ^a,b,c   Weihs, Karen L ^a   Herring, Anne ^a,b   Hishaw, Alex ^a   Smith, Ryan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Alexithymia; Anomia; Brain; Emotional awareness; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AFFECTIVE AGNOSIA; AGNOSIA; ALEXITHYMIA; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL AWARENESS SCALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGNOSIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FREUDIAN THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84935029900     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.06.007     Document Type: Review

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