Medically unexplained symptoms-blurring the line between "mental" and "physical" in somatoform disorders

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 185-187

  Creed, Francis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY DISORDER; BACKACHE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MEMORY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 68549096205     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.07.001     Document Type: Editorial

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