Personality in patients with pituitary adenomas is characterized by increased anxiety-related traits: Comparison of 70 acromegalic patients with patients with non-functioning pituitary adenomas and age- and gender-matched controls

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 367-373

  Sievers, C ^a   Ising, M ^a   Pfister, H ^a   Dimopoulou, C ^a   Schneider, H J ^a,b   Roemmler, J ^b   Schopohl, J ^b   Stalla, G K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; GROWTH HORMONE; PEGVISOMANT; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXCITABILITY; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROSIS; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PESSIMISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ADENOMA; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 62649157381     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-08-0896     Document Type: Article

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