Arousability in schizophrenia: Relationship to emotional and physiological reactivity and symptom severity

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 432-439

  Dinzeo, T J ^a,d   Cohen, A S ^b   Nienow, T M ^c   Docherty, N M ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Emotion stress; Personality; Symptoms; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 43549110927     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01185.x     Document Type: Article

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