Childhood trauma and adult declarative memory performance in the general population: The mediating effect of alexithymia

Previous studies suggested that childhood maltreatment is associated with altered memory performance in adulthood. Deficits in identifying and describing feelings as captured by the alexithymia construct are strongly linked with childhood trauma and may mediate the associations with memory function. To investigate the associations of childhood trauma with verbal declarative memory performance and the putative mediating role of alexithymia....