Tactile perceptual processes and their relationship to medically unexplained symptoms and health anxiety

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 335-341

  Katzer, Anna ^a   Oberfeld, Daniel ^a   Hiller, Wolfgang ^a   Witthöft, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health anxiety; Hypochondria; Medically unexplained symptoms; Somatic Signal Detection Task; Somatoform disorders; Tactile perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SOMATIC SIGNAL DETECTION TASK; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053942332     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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