Mass Psychogenic Illness: Psychological Predisposition and Iatrogenic Pseudo-vocal Cord Dysfunction and Pseudo-reactive Airways Disease Syndrome

Journal of Medical Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-117

  Staudenmayer, Herman ^a   Christopher, Kent L ^b   Repsher, Lawrence ^b   Hill, Ronald H ^a  

^a University of Colorado Health Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

^b Industrial Hygiene and Safety   (United States)

Author keywords

Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI); Indoor air quality; Irritant induced vocal cord dysfunction (IVCD); Mass psychogenic illness (MPI); Reactive airways disease syndrome (RADS); Solvent; Somatoform disorder; Toluene; Volatile organic compounds (VOC)

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LIFE EVENT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MALINGERING; MASS PSYCHOGENIC ILLNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REACTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

ADULT; ASTHMA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SYNDROME; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 79959315789     PISSN: 15569039     EISSN: 19376995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13181-011-0136-8     Document Type: Article

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