Can neuroimaging help us to understand and classify somatoform disorders? A systematic and critical review

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-184

  Browning, Michael ^a   Fletcher, Paul ^b   Sharpe, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain imaging; etiology; neuroscience; somatoform disorders

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BASAL GANGLION; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONVERSION DISORDER; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STIMULUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79951495020     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31820824f6     Document Type: Review

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