The association between communication impairments and acquired alexithymia in chronic stroke patients.

Introduction: Language dysfunction has recently been suggested to be one route to alexithymia, an impairment in recognizing and communicating one's own emotions. Neuropsychological evidence is needed to investigate the possibility that acquired language problems could underlie acquired alexithymia.

Method: This project examined data from a large group of chronic stroke patients ( = 118) to test whether self-reported or behavioral measures of language and communication problems were associated with alexithymia.