Selective attention, memory bias, and symptom perception in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 397-407

  Witthöft, Michael ^a   Gerlach, Alexander L ^b   Bailer, Josef ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional Stroop; Idiopathic environmental intolerance; Memory; Multiple chemical sensitivity; Selective attention; Somatoform disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDIOPATHIC ENVIRONMENTAL INTOLERANCE; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 33748855437     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.115.3.397     Document Type: Article

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