Tinnitus: Clinical experience of the psychosomatic connection

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 267-275

  Salviati, Massimo ^a   Bersani, Francesco Saverio ^a   Terlizzi, Samira ^a   Melcore, Claudia ^a   Panico, Roberta ^a   Romano, Graziella Francesca ^a   Valeriani, Guiseppe ^a   Macrì, Francesco ^a   Altissimi, Giancarlo ^b   Mazzei, Filippo ^b   Testugini, Valeria ^b   Latini, Luca ^a   Delle Chiaie, Roberto ^a   Biondi, Massimo ^a   Cianfrone, Giancarlo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Personality; Psychopathological dimensions; Psychosomatics; Stress; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSION; PARANOIA; PHOBIA; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC PROCEDURES; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SOMATIZATION; STRESS; STRESS RELATED VULNERABILITY SCALE; SYMPTOM CHECK LIST; TEMPERAMENT; TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER INVENTORY; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP INVENTORY; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84896714925     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S49425     Document Type: Article

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