Somatic symptoms deserve our attention.

Wound care in Sri Lanka: our patients deserve better care.

Chronic ulcers are a major problem in health care worldwide [1–5]. Wound care is a much neglected field in Sri Lanka. Care of a wound, and advising and supervising the medical team to carry out the necessary measures in wound care, is a basic duty of a clinician. Wounds are an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the ‘art and science of healing’. Patients with chronic wounds are often shunned by th...

Influenza: getting our attention.

Influenza has become an increasingly frequent topic in the news and medical literature. Although the 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people than died during the first World War, for much of the 20th century, the disease was considered of interest primarily during the winter months, as emergency departments and hospitals filled with sick patients. Less than a decade ago, few pediatricians in...

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...

[Somatic symptoms of depression].

OBJECTIVE The somatic component of depression is an important clinical phenomenon. The role of somatic amplification, alexithymia, anger and symptom attribution has been investigated in the genesis of the somatic symptoms of depression. METHOD The study was carried out with 32 patients attending the outpatient psychiatry clinics of Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, meeting the di...