Psychophysiologic Disorders
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Somatic complaints, mood states, and emotional awareness in adolescents]

30 Jul 2009 Health complaints are a common problem in adolescents, but a medical cause can only be found in few cases. Therefore, increasing attention is paid to psychological factors that might be related. Two areas of emotional functioning are frequently ... Read more...

Psychogenic movement disorders.

30 Jul 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review summarizes the progress made in the area of psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) over the past 2 years, and a simplified classification of diagnostic certainty is proposed that incorporates electrophysiological ... Read more...

Reducing the impact of unemployment on health: revisiting the agenda for primary health care.

18 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: To identify potentially effective strategies to be used in the primary health care (PHC) setting to prevent, detect and manage the health problems of unemployed people. DESIGN: A narrative review of articles on PHC-based interventions for ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychophysiologic Disorders'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Aspects of psychosomatic medicine and current treatment options in male sexual dysfunction] Sep 2009
• [Immunologic disturbances can explain chronic fatigue syndrome. Biological findings point towards somatogenesis] 30 Aug 2009
• Abstracts of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Berlin, Germany. October 21-24, 2009. 30 Aug 2009
• [Unclear conditions--common mechanisms?] 11 Aug 2009
• [Somatic complaints, mood states, and emotional awareness in adolescents] 30 Jul 2009
• Movement disorders: Psychogenic movement disorders: what do neurologists do? 30 Jul 2009
• Psychogenic movement disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• [The importance of social pediatry knowledge in basic child health care--Academy of Parents in Gyôr, Hungary] 24 Jul 2009
• Reducing the impact of unemployment on health: revisiting the agenda for primary health care. 18 Jul 2009
• Opinions and clinical practices related to diagnosing and managing patients with psychogenic movement disorders: An international survey of movement disorder society members. 13 Jul 2009
• [Research in psychotherapy--does it improve psychosomatic care?] 30 Jun 2009
• Back to the future in style: psychosomatic research in cardiovascular disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Perceived discrimination and health: a meta-analytic review. 29 Jun 2009
• Psychogenic syncope? A cautionary note. 29 Jun 2009
• [Introducing and incorporating aroma therapy in a psychiatric clinic: promoting quality of life] 29 Jun 2009
• [Interaction of somatopsychic and psychosomatic factors: the psyche also requires care] 29 Jun 2009
• Autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome with vertigo and hemilateral auditory impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Bulimia and cough: psychogenic or organic? 18 Jun 2009
• [First curriculum for care of patients with mental and psychosomatic disorders in the context of a consultation-liaison service] 14 Jun 2009
• Psychogenic paroxysmal dyskinesia: the role of placebo in the diagnosis and management. 13 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychophysiologic Disorders'

Definition: A group of disorders characterized by physical symptoms that are affected by emotional factors and involve a single organ system, usually under AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM control. (American Psychiatric Glossary, 1988)

Descriptor UI: D011602

Alternative terms: Psychophysiologic Disorders; Psychophysiologic Disorder; Psychosomatic Disorders; Psychosomatic Disorder; Psychophysiological Disorders; Psychophysiological Disorder;

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: C23.888.592.700;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: differentiate from PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE which is the field; coord IM with specific dis /psychol (IM); Manual 27.12; DF: PSYCHOPHYSIOL DIS