Alexithymic trait, painful heat stimulation and everyday pain experience

Background: Alexithymia was found to be associated with a variety of somatic complaints including somatoform pain symptoms. This study addressed the question of whether the different facets of alexithymia are related to responses in heat pain stimulation and its interrelations with levels of everyda...

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Main Authors: Olga ePollatos, Anja eDietel, Harald eGündel, Stefan eDuschek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00139/full