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Alexithymia and cortisol awakening response in people with eating disorders.

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Abstract
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Alexithymia, which is the inability to recognise and describe one's own emotions, is a transdiagnostic feature across eating disorders (EDs) and it has been associated with prolonged stress exposure. Therefore, we evaluated whether alexithymia was associated with hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning, the main endogenous stress response system, in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa (BN).

Year of Publication
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2020
Journal
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The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry
Number of Pages
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1-6
Date Published
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2020
ISSN Number
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1562-2975
URL
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15622975.2020.1844291
DOI
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10.1080/15622975.2020.1844291
Short Title
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World J Biol Psychiatry
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