Hypochondriasis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Acute and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of severely disabling obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a patient with Asperger syndrome.

30 Aug 2009 We report successful treatment with electroconvulsive therapy of a comorbid condition including severe obsessive-compulsive symptoms and hypochondriacal delusions in a 38-year-old man with Asperger syndrome. His condition deteriorated into a ... Read more...

Fixed belief in cognitive dysfunction despite normal neuropsychological scores: neurocognitive hypochondriasis?

30 Jul 2009 A subset of patients who present for neuropsychological testing report dysfunction in daily life activities secondary to cognitive deficits, but are found on formal testing to have no objective abnormalities, raising the possibility of ... Read more...

Cognitive behavioral therapy versus paroxetine in the treatment of hypochondriasis: an 18-month naturalistic follow-up.

26 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: The present maintenance study investigated whether the reduction in hypochondriacal complaints after initial treatment with CBT or paroxetine sustained during a follow-up period and whether psychiatric severity at pretest predicted the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hypochondriasis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Acute and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of severely disabling obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a patient with Asperger syndrome. 30 Aug 2009
• Fixed belief in cognitive dysfunction despite normal neuropsychological scores: neurocognitive hypochondriasis? 30 Jul 2009
• Cognitive behavioral therapy versus paroxetine in the treatment of hypochondriasis: an 18-month naturalistic follow-up. 26 Jun 2009
• Measuring health anxiety: moving past the dichotomous response option of the original Whiteley Index. 7 Jun 2009
• Is hypochondriasis an anxiety disorder? 30 May 2009
• Cognitive-behavioural bibliotherapy for hypochondriasis: a pilot study. 4 May 2009
• The outcome of medically unexplained symptoms--will DSM-V improve on DSM-IV somatoform disorders? 29 Apr 2009
• New research on medically unexplained symptoms--much remains to be done before DSM V and ICD-10 can provide a satisfactory new classification. 29 Apr 2009
• Health anxiety and disability pension award: The HUSK Study. 23 Mar 2009
• Reexamining the domain of hypochondriasis: comparing the Illness Attitudes Scale to other approaches. 9 Mar 2009
• Brain dysfunction behind functional symptoms: neuroimaging and somatoform, conversive, and dissociative disorders. 27 Feb 2009
• Disease phobia in patients with temporomandibular joint pain assessed by the Illness Attitude Scale. 30 Dec 2008
• The factor structure of the illness attitude scales in a German population. 30 Dec 2008
• Medically unexplained symptoms, somatisation disorder and hypochondriasis: course and prognosis. A systematic review. 14 Dec 2008
• Safety of electroconvulsive therapy in psychiatric patients shortly after the occurrence of pulmonary embolism. 29 Nov 2008
• A double-masked, placebo-controlled study of fluoxetine for hypochondriasis. 29 Nov 2008
• [Hypochondriasis and somatisation in elderly] 28 Nov 2008
• Predicting the effect of psychoeducational group treatment for hypochondriasis. 30 Oct 2008
• Fleeting phobics. 30 Oct 2008
• Decreased NT-3 plasma levels and platelet serotonin content in patients with hypochondriasis. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Hypochondriasis'

Definition: Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. (APA, DSM-IV)

Descriptor UI: D006998

Alternative terms: Hypochondriasis; Hypochondriacal Neuroses; Neurosis, Hypochondriacal; Hypochondriacal Neurosis;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.875.450;

Online Note: use HYPOCHONDRIASIS to search HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES 1969-80

History Note: NEUROSIS, HYPOCHONDRIACAL was HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES see HYPOCHONDRIASIS 1979-80, was HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES see under HYPOCHONDRIASIS 1969-78