Alexithymia in High Performers | MindLAB Neuroscience
Alexithymia in High Performers: Why Emotional Blindness Fuels Success — Until It Doesn’t Alexithymia in high performers is the neurobiological pattern in which the anterior insular cortex underactivates while the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex compensates by substituting analytic reasoning for the visceral-emotional signal the brain cannot produce. The substitution works. It produces visible competence across every domain — until the cognitive load it requires exceeds what compensation can carry, and the entire architecture collapses at once. ...
