Facial emotion recognition and alexithymia in adults with somatoform disorders

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gil, Francisco Pedrosa ^a   Ridout, Nathan ^b   Kessler, Henrik ^c   Neuffer, Michaela ^a   Schoechlin, Claudia ^a   Traue, Harald C ^c   Nickel, Marius ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e University Clinic for Psychiatry 1   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Emotion recognition; Somatoform disorders

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMORBIDITY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 58549104373     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20456     Document Type: Article

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