Hypersensitivity to electricity: Sense or sensibility?

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 427-432

  Hillert, L ^a   Kolmodin Hedman, B ^a  

^a Environ Illness Research Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OFFICE WORKER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SWEDEN; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

EID: 0030980866     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(96)00374-1     Document Type: Editorial

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