Abnormalities in cognitive-emotional information processing in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-84

  Witthöft, Michael ^a   Rist, Fred ^b   Bailer, Josef ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional Stroop; Extrinsic affective Simone task (EAST); Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI); Implicit association effects; Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS); Selective attention; Somatoform disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149267836     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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