Psychosocial and immunological factors in neurasthenia

Psychosomatics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-29

  Cao, YuPing ^b   Zhang, YaLin ^a   Chang, Doris F ^b   Wang, GuoQiang ^b   Zhang, XiangHui ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE; GAMMA ORYZANOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIFE EVENTS SCALE; MALE; NEURASTHENIA; NEUROSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; NEURASTHENIA; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 61849174806     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.50.1.24     Document Type: Article

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