Alexithymia in obsessive-compulsive disorder - Results from a family study

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 312-318

  Grabe, Hans Joergen ^a   Ruhrmann, Stephan ^b   Ettelt, Susan ^a   Müller, Angela ^a   Buhtz, Friederike ^c   Hochrein, Andrea ^c   Schulze Rauschenbach, Svenja ^c   Meyer, Klaus ^a   Kraft, Susanne ^b   Reck, Claudia ^b   Pukrop, Ralf ^b   Klosterkötter, Joachim ^b   Falkai, Peter ^d   Maier, Wolfgang ^c   Wagner, Michael ^c   John, Ulrich ^a   Freyberger, Harald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Family study; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Study of Health in Pomerania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 33746890937     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093954     Document Type: Article

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