Psychiatric morbidity and toxic burden in patients with environmental illness: A controlled study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 104-109

  Bornschein, Susanne ^a   Hausteiner, Constanze ^a   Konrad, Franz ^b   Förstl, Hans ^a   Zilker, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical exposure; Environmental illness; IEI; Psychiatric; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; URINALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 33744477057     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000195723.38991.bf     Document Type: Article

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