Phobic postural vertigo: A new proposed entity

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 720-723

  Pollak, Lea ^a,b,c   Klein, Colin ^a,b,c   Stryjer, Raphael ^b   Kushnir, Mark ^a,b,c   Teitler, Jacques ^a,b,c   Fletcher, Shlomo ^a,b,c  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEER YAAKOV MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body perturbations; Mono symptomatic; Psychological mechanism; Unsteadiness; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DIZZINESS;

DISEASES;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BETAHISTINE; CINNARIZINE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BALANCE DISORDER; BENIGN RECURRENT VERTIGO; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OVARIAN BLEEDING; PANIC; PHOBIC POSTURAL VERTIGO; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC; PAROXETINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; VERTIGO;

EID: 0242552075     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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