Functional Somatic Symptoms

Chronic functional somatic symptoms: a single syndrome?

BACKGROUND Reliable longitudinal data of patients with functional somatic symptoms in general practice are lacking. AIMS To identify distinctive features in patients with chronic functional somatic symptoms, and to determine whether these symptoms support the hypothesis of the existence of specific somatic syndromes. DESIGN OF STUDY Observational study, with a comparison control group. SE...

ABC of psychological medicine: Functional somatic symptoms and syndromes.

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Antidepressants and somatic symptoms: therapeutic actions are expanding beyond affective spectrum disorders to functional somatic syndromes.

Having expanded their original role as primary treatment for depression to preferred treatment for anxiety disorders, antidepressants are now emerging as potential therapeutic agents for many other disorders characterized by distressing or even painful somatic symptoms.

Fatigue and somatic symptoms.

Somatic symptoms in depression

Both painful and nonpainful somatic symptoms essentially characterize clinical states of depressive mood. So far, this well-established psychopathological knowledge has been appreciated only insufficiently by the official diagnostic systerms of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV TR) and the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral...