Physical symptom reporting is associated with a tendency to experience somatosensory distortion

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 648-655

  Brown, Richard J ^a   Skehan, Daniel ^a   Chapman, Anna ^a   Perry, Ewan P ^a   McKenzie, Kirsten J ^a,b   Lloyd, Donna M ^a   Babbs, Christopher ^c   Paine, Peter ^c   Poliakoff, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^c SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

illusory touch; medically unexplained symptoms; somatic signal detection task; somatization; somatosensory amplification; trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUSION; MALE; PHYSICAL SYMPTOM REPORTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOMATIC SIGNAL DETECTION TASK; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SYMPTOM; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863716012     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182595358     Document Type: Article

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