Mind-Body Interactions in Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-60

  Mallorquí Bagué, Núria ^a,c,e   Bulbena, Antonio ^c,d   Pailhez, Guillem ^c,d   Garfinkel, Sarah N ^a,b   Critchley, Hugo D ^a,b  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Physiology Section   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT UNIVERSITARI DEXEUS   (Spain)

Author keywords

anxiety; cognition; emotion; interoception; joint hypermobility syndrome; psychological models; somatic symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; EMOTION; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; JOINT LAXITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIND BODY INTERACTION; MINDFULNESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC SYMPTOM; TRAIT ANXIETY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS;

ANXIETY; HUMANS; INTEROCEPTION; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS;

EID: 84955447329     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000085     Document Type: Review

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