Discriminating between organic and psychological determinants of multiple chemical sensitivity: A case study

Neurocase

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 485-493

  Zucco, Gesualdo M ^a   Militello, Carmelo ^a   Doty, Richard L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Case study; Multiple chemical sensitivity; Olfactory tests; Organic and psychological etiologies

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COSMETIC; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; FRAGRANCE; PAINT; PERFUME; PESTICIDE; PLASTIC; SOLVENT; TAR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DYSPEPSIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE IRRITATION; FACE INJURY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY COLIC; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKE; STOMACH DISEASE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREMOR; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VERTIGO; VITILIGO; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SMELL;

EID: 56549126226     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790802498948     Document Type: Article

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