Somatic Symptom Disorder
Somatic symptom disorder involves a person having a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness or shortness of breath, that results in major distress and/or problems functioning. The individual has excessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors relating to the physical symptoms.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW210
Diagnosis: Somatic Symptom Disorder
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Age Onset: adolescence
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Symptoms: medical problems, not explained by medicalcause, with excessive worry about the conditions, false pregnancies, mass hysteria,
Progression: psychogenic urinary retention
Causes:
Medications: antidepressants
Therapies: CBT may help reduce stress, cope with preoccupation with symptoms, physical symptoms, depression, improve quality of life
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- Identifying the top research priorities in medically not yet explained symptoms (MNYES): a James Lind Alliance priority setting partnershipby Christina Maria van der Feltz-Cornelis on July 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES: This study establishes research priorities for medically not yet explained symptoms (MNYES), also known as persistent physical symptoms or medically unexplained symptoms, from the perspective of patients, caregivers and clinicians, in a priority setting partnership (PSP) following the James Lind Alliance (JLA) approach. Research into such symptoms in general has been poorly funded over the years and so far has been primarily researcher-led with minimal input from patients, caregivers...
- The Development of Illness Anxiety Disorder in a Patient After Partial Thyroidectomyby Neeraj Kancherla on June 30, 2022
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), characterises illness anxiety disorder (IAD) as the preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness in the absence of somatic symptoms (or, if present, symptoms that are only mild in severity). DSM-5 includes illness anxiety disorder in the category called somatic symptom and related disorders, characterised by prominent somatic concerns, distress, and impaired functioning. More often than in psychiatric...
- Three Dimensions of Association Link Migraine Symptoms and Functional Connectivityby Samuel R Krimmel on June 29, 2022
Migraine is a heterogeneous disorder with variable symptoms and responsiveness to therapy. Due to previous analytic shortcomings, variance in migraine symptoms has been inconsistently related to brain function. In the current analysis we used data from two sites (n=143, male and female humans), and performed Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), relating resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) with a broad range of migraine symptoms ranging from headache characteristics to sleep...
- Body Structural Description Impairment in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type Iby Iftah Biran on June 27, 2022
CONCLUSION: CRPS subjects suffer from impaired body structural description, taking the form of body parts disassembly and body parts discontinuity. This impairment can serve as a nidus for aberrant psychological representation of the body.