Behavioral conditioning and idiopathic environmental intolerance

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 519-528

  Giardino, Nicholas D ^a   Lehrer, Paul M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33749086212     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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