| 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] | mvPFC | Mobbs et al., [94] Moran et al., [96] Goel and Dolan, [98] Bartolo et al., [99] Sieboerger et al., [104] | amPFC | Gallagher et al., [102] Marjoram et al., [103] |
| Hogeveen et al., [89] | Anterior insula | Insula | Moran et al., [96] | Insula, left IPG, left pITG, and right pMTG | Goel and Dolan, [98] |
| Hoppe and Bogen, [13] Galin, [14] | Corpus callosum | | |
| Huang et al., [9] Paradiso et al., [74] | Globus pallidus | | |
| Spalletta et al., [16] Ho and Lee [30] Schäfer et al., [29] | Right hemisphere | | |
| Williams et al., [83] | Bilateral frontal and parietal lobes | Insula, left IPG, left pITG, and right pMTG | Goel and Dolan, [98] |
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