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Volume 144, Issue 1 , Pages 125-129 , July 2009

Personality profiles and subjective perception of pain in head pain patients

  • Franco Mongini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, Headache and Facial Pain Unit, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 011 6334041.
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  • Eugenia Rota

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, Headache and Facial Pain Unit, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
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  • Andrea Evangelista

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Turin, Italy
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  • Giovannino Ciccone

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Turin, Italy
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  • Chantal Milani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, Headache and Facial Pain Unit, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
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  • Alessandro Ugolini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, Headache and Facial Pain Unit, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
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  • Luca Ferrero

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, Headache and Facial Pain Unit, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
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  • Tullia Mongini

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatry Section, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy
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  • Rosalba Rosato

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Turin, Italy

Received 9 September 2008 ,Revised 6 March 2009 ,Accepted 25 March 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00194-8

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.03.026

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