Illness perception in Chinese adults with epilepsy.

Background: Epilepsy is among the most common neurological disorders worldwide. Understanding the patient's subjective experience plays an important role in the treatment and rehabilitation of the patient. However, few studies are concerned about the illness perception of Chinese adults with epilepsy.

How does emotional context modulate response inhibition in alexithymia: electrophysiological evidence from an ERP study.

Background: Alexithymia, characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings, is highly indicative of a broad range of psychiatric disorders. Several studies have also discovered the response inhibition ability impairment in alexithymia. However, few studies on alexithymic individuals have specifically examined how emotional context modulates response inhibition procedure.

Impairment of conflict processing in alexithymic individuals.

Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings and in distinguishing between feelings and bodily sensations. Several researchers have examined the impairment of executive functioning in alexithymia; however, only a few studies have been specifically concerned with conflict processing in alexithymia. Utilizing the attention network test (ANT), we investigated whether alexithymia is related to or independent of executive function, especially with respect to conflict processing.

[Characteristics and related factors of illness perception in Chinese cancer patients].

Objective: To investigate the illness perception of cancer patients as well as the difference of illness perception between cancer patients and diabetics so as to help them to derive meaning from illness experiences and facilitate posttraumatic growth.

Methods: A sample of 210 Chinese cancer patients and 71 diabetics was recruited from the same hospital and CIPQ-R completed.

Results: Cancer patients had higher consequences [F (1, 275) = 23.