Environmental sensitivity: A neurobiological phenomenon?

Seminars in Integrative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 104-109

  Jawer, Michael ^a,b  

^a US General Services Administration Office of Evaluation Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ALLERGY; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIGRAINE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIZATION;

EID: 30844433489     PISSN: 15431150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigm.2005.10.003     Document Type: Review

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