AIMS The relationship between syncope and psychiatric disorders is little investigated. This study evaluated the prevalence of psychiatric diseases and prognostic outcome in patients with recurrent unexplained syncope. METHODS AND RESULTS After an inconclusive standard diagnostic work-up for syncope, including head-up tilt testing, a psychiatric evaluation was offered to 50 consecutive patien...

Conversion disorder is characterized as psychological symptoms such as somatization and emotional distress, but there is no abnormal electrical signal in the brain. We report a patient who appeared conversion disorder during the induction period of general anesthesia. A 45-year-old woman was planned for arthroscopic knee meniscectomy. In the operating room, she appeared stable, but she said ext...

AIMS To examine the extent of depression, anxiety, somatization, and comorbidity between depression and anxiety in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) by adding the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised self-report questionnaire for anxiety to the Research Diagnostic Criteria for TMD. METHODS A total of 207 Israeli TMD patients were included in this retrospective study. Data included level...

INTRODUCTION The association between depression, somatization and low back pain has been minimally investigated in a Canadian emerging adult population. METHODS 1013 first year Canadian university students completed the Modified Zung Depression Index, the Modified Somatic Perception Questionnaire, and a survey about low back pain frequency and intensity. Multinomial logistic regression was us...

OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to determine how patients who make frequent use of the medical system (high users) with medically unexplained symptoms met our chart-rating criteria for somatization and minor acute illness and what the stability of such diagnoses were over time. STUDY DESIGN A chart review was performed at baseline and 1 and 2 years; we re-rated the charts of patients initially...

Cultural differences in the reporting of depressive symptoms among older people were examined using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Korea, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Previous work in Asian samples--principally North American immigrants--suggested differential functioning of the CES-D. The four-factor solution e...

The recognition that all illnesses have both mental and physical components and that there is a dynamic relationship between components of systems (general systems theory) led to criticisms of the biomedical model and to the development of the biopsychosocial model of Western medicine.1,2 From this model emerged the concept of triple diagnosis, whereby clinicians make diagnoses at three levels,...

Relevance. One of the negative consequences pandemic may be an increase in somatization. The analysis statements about makes it possible to identify peculiarities attitude situation by people with different psychological problems. aim study was identification implicit characteristics texts indicating opinion a high level Materials and methods. material obtained online survey (03/23/2020 — 01/29...

Contrary to Smger’s contentlon that the features of depressive dtsorders do not exhlblt slgmficant cross-cultural differences the author uses material from field research m Tatwan and data from recent anthropologlcal and chrucal mvesttgatlons to support the opposite view that such differences extst and are a function of the cultural shaping of normattve and devtant behavior Somatlzatlon amongst...