Table 1.
Secondary alexithymia and humor studies.
| Organic alexithymia | Aberrant humor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Studies | Brain region | Brain region | Studies |
| Paradiso et al., [74] Messina et al., [67] Patrikelis et al., [12] Hobson et al., [26] Schäfer et al., [29] |
Ventral-rostral ACC/mPFC | IFG, MFG, ITG MTG, TPJ, and precuneus | Watson et al., [100] |
| IFG | Wild et al., [97] Goel and Dolan, [98] Bartolo et al., [99] Watson et al., [100] |
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| mvPFC | Mobbs et al., [94] Moran et al., [96] Goel and Dolan, [98] Bartolo et al., [99] Sieboerger et al., [104] |
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| amPFC | Gallagher et al., [102] Marjoram et al., [103] |
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| Hogeveen et al., [89] | Anterior insula | Insula | Moran et al., [96] |
| Insula, left IPG, left pITG, and right pMTG | Goel and Dolan, [98] | ||
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| Hoppe and Bogen, [13] Galin, [14] |
Corpus callosum | ||
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| Huang et al., [9] Paradiso et al., [74] |
Globus pallidus | ||
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| Spalletta et al., [16] Ho and Lee [30] Schäfer et al., [29] |
Right hemisphere | ||
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| Williams et al., [83] | Bilateral frontal and parietal lobes | Insula, left IPG, left pITG, and right pMTG | Goel and Dolan, [98] |