Relationships between catastrophic thought, bodily sensations and physical symptoms

Abstract Background Researchers have recently begun to seek cognitive explanations for physical symptoms with no obvious biological cause. Concepts such as somatization, somatosensory amplification, and somatosensory catastrophizing have been invoked to explain these phenomena. Somatosensory amplifi...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Seto, Mutsuhiro Nakao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BioPsychoSocial Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13030-017-0110-z