Psychiatric Syndromes in Persian Gulf War Veterans: An Association of Handling Dead Bodies with Somatoform Disorders
Traumatic combat experience has been associated with the development of posttraumatic stress disorder, but there have been few studies about the association of military combat experience and the development of somatoform disorders. The authors evaluated 131 referred Gulf War veterans for medical and psychiatric syndromes thought related to their involvement in the Gulf War. Patients completed ques
