Paul H Lysaker, Nikita Chernov, Tatyana Moiseeva, Marta Sozinova, Nadezhda Dmitryeva, Anastasiya Makarova, Marina Kukla, Evan Myers, Olga Karpenko, Georgiy Kostyuk
Alexithymia, or deficits in emotion recognition, and metacognitive capacity have been noted both in psychosis and eating disorders and potentially linked to psychopathology. This study sought to compare levels of impairments in these phenomena and their associations with psychopathology in groups with eating disorders and psychosis. Participants with diagnoses of a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD; n = 53), anorexia (n = 40), or bulimia (n = 40) were recruited from outpatient clinics. Alexithymia was measured with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale; emotion recognition, with the Ekman Faces Test; and metacognition, with the Metacognitive Assessment Scale-Abbreviated...
May 1, 2023: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease