Psychogenic fever, functional fever, or psychogenic hyperthermia?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Psychogenic fever, functional fever, or psychogenic hyperthermia?
Psychogenic fever reflects a phenomenon where core body temperature is high (up to 41°C) or low-grade high (37-38°C) during either acute or chronic stress. Underlying mechanisms are distinct from infection-induced fever and involve the central and sympathetic nervous systems. Psychogenic fever appears a complex psychological, physiological and endocrinological phenomenon.
متن کاملAge distribution and gender differences in psychogenic fever patients
Psychogenic fever is one of the most common psychosomatic diseases. In Japan, psychogenic fever has generally been reported to occur in adolescents, with a peak seen at age 13. However, in our department we have encountered many adults with psychogenic fever. Therefore, we investigated all outpatients who visited the Psychosomatic Department of the University of Occupational and Environmental H...
متن کاملAutoerythrocyte Sensitization or Psychogenic Purpura?
The above quotation is taken from the original clinical report in which Gardner and Diamond (1955) described the syndrome of autoerythrocyte sensitization as an unusual purpuric syndrome in which crops of apparently spontaneous painful inflammatory ecchymoses occurred in four women who had sustained physical injury shortly before the onset of symptoms. They postulated that, as a result, their p...
متن کاملFunctional or Psychogenic Movement Disorders: An Endless Enigmatic Tale
Functional/psychogenic movement disorders (F/PMDs) are a valuable model for all medically unexplained symptoms and raise arduous challenges for diagnosis and treatment indicating our restricted understanding of the true pathogenesis that causes them. A multiplicity of terms, such as “conversion,” “somatization disorder,” “psychosomatic,” “neuropsychiatric,” “dissociative motor disorders,” and s...
متن کاملAge and gender differences of psychogenic fever: a review of the Japanese literature
BACKGROUND Psychogenic fever is one of the most common psychosomatic diseases. Patients with psychogenic fever have acute or persistent body temperature above normal range in psychologically stressful situations. In spite of numerous case reports on psychogenic fever, there are few epidemiological studies. Therefore, our goal was to investigate the age distribution and gender differences of psy...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Temperature
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2332-8940,2332-8959
DOI: 10.1080/23328940.2015.1071701