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Retraction Note to: Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale

Molecular Autism volume 12, Article number: 40 (2021) Cite this article

12 August 2021 Editor's Note: Readers are informed that the revised manuscript referred to in the retraction notice for this article is now published at https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s13229-021-00463-5

The Original Article was published on 02 March 2021

Retraction Note to: Molecular Autism (2021) 12:20 https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s13229-021-00427-9

The authors have retracted this article because they did not have permission from the copyright holders to use and adapt the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). This retraction is not related to the results or conclusions presented in the article, which remain scientifically valid. The authors are preparing a revised manuscript in accordance with requests from the TAS-20 copyright holders, and they plan to resubmit this revised version to this Journal for peer review. Both authors agree with this retraction.

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  1. Medical Scientist Training Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

    Zachary J. Williams

  2. Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1215 21st Avenue South, Medical Center East,Room 8310, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA

    Zachary J. Williams

  3. Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Zachary J. Williams

  4. Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Zachary J. Williams

  5. Department of Psychology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA

    Katherine O. Gotham

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Williams, Z.J., Gotham, K.O. Retraction Note to: Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Molecular Autism 12, 40 (2021). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s13229-021-00446-6

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