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SUBMITTER: Albantakis L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7543015 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Autism : the international journal of research and practice 20200714 8
<h4>Lay abstract</h4>Adults with autism often develop mental health problems such as depression and social phobia. The reasons for this are still unclear. Many studies found that alexithymia plays an important role in mental health problems like depression. People with alexithymia have difficulties identifying and describing their emotions. Almost every second person with autism has alexithymia. Therefore, we explored in this study whether alexithymia is linked to worse mental health in autistic ...[more]