Somatoform Disorders - Physiopathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Psychosocial distress and somatic symptoms in community subjects with irritable bowel syndrome: a psychological component is the rule.

31 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: Psychosocial factors may drive people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to seek health care, but whether psychological factors are causally linked to IBS is controversial. One hypothesis is that IBS is a heterogeneous syndrome ... Read more...

Burning mouth syndrome and psychological disorders.

30 May 2009 Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is an oral dysaesthesia that causes chronic orofacial pain in the absence of a detectable organic cause. The aetiology of BMS is complex and multifactorial, and has been associated in the literature with menopause, ... Read more...

Depression and pain.

30 May 2009 Depression and pain disorders are often diagnosed in the same patients. Here we summarize the shared pathophysiology between both disorders and the importance of addressing all symptoms in patients with comorbid pain and depression. We describe ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Somatoform Disorders - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Unclear conditions--common mechanisms?] 11 Aug 2009
• Is baroreflex sensitivity really pathological in patients with somatization disorder? Comment on: Laederach-Hofmann et al. (2008). 4 Jun 2009
• Psychosocial distress and somatic symptoms in community subjects with irritable bowel syndrome: a psychological component is the rule. 31 May 2009
• Burning mouth syndrome and psychological disorders. 30 May 2009
• Depression and pain. 30 May 2009
• Autonomic activity and somatic symptoms in response to success vs. failure on a cognitive task: a comparison of chronic abdominal pain patients and well children. 13 Apr 2009
• Developmental influences on medically unexplained symptoms. 7 Mar 2009
• Brain dysfunction behind functional symptoms: neuroimaging and somatoform, conversive, and dissociative disorders. 27 Feb 2009
• The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part II: clinical applications and implications for research. 3 Feb 2009
• Pain and the brain: lower back pain. 30 Jan 2009
• Dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and functional somatic symptoms: a longitudinal cohort study in the general population. 29 Jan 2009
• Preliminary evidence of association between EFHC2, a gene implicated in fear recognition, and harm avoidance. 17 Jan 2009
• Inflammatory and oxidative and nitrosative stress pathways underpinning chronic fatigue, somatization and psychosomatic symptoms. 30 Dec 2008
• Negative affect and 24-hour ambulatory physiological recordings as predictors of spontaneous improvement of medically unexplained symptoms. 31 Aug 2008
• Efficacy of functional relaxation and patient education in the treatment of somatoform heart disorders: a randomized, controlled clinical investigation. 30 Aug 2008
• Effort testing in patients with neurological symptoms unexplained by disease. 26 Aug 2008
• Determinants of symptoms in functional dyspepsia: gastric sensorimotor function, psychosocial factors or somatisation? 12 Jul 2008
• Impact of chronic somatoform and osteoarthritis pain on conscious and preconscious cognitive processing. 5 Jul 2008
• Back to Briquet and Charcot. 29 Jun 2008
• Pathological baroreceptor sensitivity in patients suffering from somatization disorders: do they correlate with symptoms? 18 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Somatoform Disorders'

Definition: Disorders having the presence of physical symptoms that suggest a general medical condition but that are not fully explained by a general medical condition, by the direct effects of a substance, or by another mental disorder. The symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. In contrast to FACTITIOUS DISORDERS and MALINGERING, the physical symptoms are not under voluntary control. (APA, DSM-IV)

Descriptor UI: D013001

Alternative terms: Somatoform Disorders; Somatoform Disorder; Somatization Disorder; Somatization Disorders; Briquet Syndrome; Syndrome, Briquet; Pain 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: F03.875;

History Note: 81

Technical Notes: differentiate from FACTITIOUS DISORDERS and PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS