Apgáua Leonardo T, Jaeger Antônio
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Department of Psychology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Dement Neuropsychol. 2019 Jan-Mar;13(1):22-30. doi: 10.1590/1980-57642018dn13-010003.
Alexithymia is a deficit in the recognition, expression and regulation of emotions, which has the following features: difficulty in identifying or describing feelings, difficulty distinguishing between feelings and bodily sensations, stringent imaginal processes, and externally oriented cognitive style. This personality trait is associated with many psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders, as well as with risky behaviors.
To investigate whether this trait is also associated with reduced memory for emotional information.
A review of articles investigating the possible damage caused by alexithymia to implicit and explicit memory for emotional information was conducted.
Although the studies concerning implicit memory presented divergent results, most studies on explicit memory suggested a deficit for emotional information retention in high-alexithymia individuals.
The reviewed data support the notion that the typical increase in episodic memory for emotional information is reduced in high-alexithymia individuals.
述情障碍是指在情绪识别、表达和调节方面存在缺陷，具有以下特征：难以识别或描述情感、难以区分情感与身体感觉、严格的想象过程以及外向型认知风格。这种人格特质与许多精神和身心障碍以及危险行为有关。
研究这种特质是否也与情感信息记忆减退有关。
对调查述情障碍对情感信息内隐和外显记忆可能造成损害的文章进行综述。
尽管关于内隐记忆的研究结果存在分歧，但大多数关于外显记忆的研究表明，高述情障碍个体在情感信息保留方面存在缺陷。
综述数据支持这样一种观点，即高述情障碍个体中，情感信息情景记忆的典型增加有所减少。
