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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)
Retraction Note to: Molecular Autism (2021) 12:20 https://doi.org/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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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://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-021-00463-5
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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://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-021-00446-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-021-00446-6