Alexithymic and somatisation scores in patients with temporomandibular pain disorder correlate with deficits in facial emotion recognition

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 81-90

  Haas, J ^a   Eichhammer, P ^a   Traue, H C ^b   Hoffmann, H ^b   Behr, M ^c   Cronlein T ^a   Pieh, C ^a   Busch, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Emotional processing; Facial emotion recognition; Facially Expressed Emotion Labelling test; Somatisation; Somatoform disorders; Temporomandibular disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACE PAIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS;

EID: 84872015913     PISSN: 0305182X     EISSN: 13652842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joor.12013     Document Type: Article

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