Functional somatic syndromes, stress pathologies, and epigenetics

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-16

  Bland, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Institute for Functional Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNDROME;

EID: 39749093121     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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