Diagnostic classification and demographic features in 283 patients with somatoform disorder

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-289

  Kuwabara, Hideki ^a   Otsuka, Michito ^a   Shindo, Masanobu ^a   Ono, Shin ^a   Shioiri, Toshiki ^a   Someya, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Diagnostic classification; Somatoform disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOOD DISORDER; ONSET AGE; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHIATRY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 34247648078     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01664.x     Document Type: Article

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