Regional gray matter volume and anxiety-related traits interact to predict somatic complaints in a non-clinical sample

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-128

  Wei, Dongtao ^a,b   Du, Xue ^a,b   Li, Wenfu ^a,b   Chen, Qunlin ^a,b   Li, Haijiang ^a,b   Hao, Xin ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Hitchman, Glenn ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Neuroticism; Somatic complaints; Somatization; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATHOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERSONALITY; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973425971     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu033     Document Type: Article

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