IMPORTANCE There are limited data on the extent to which suicide mortality is associated with specific pain conditions. OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between clinical diagnoses of noncancer pain conditions and suicide among individuals receiving services in the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. DESIGN Retrospective data analysis. SETTING Data were extracted from Na...

Psychogenic movement disorders (PMD) are a group of disorders which are in the border zone between neurology and psychiatry. All necessary laboratory investigations should be done to rule out an underlying organic disorder. While clinical acumen of a trained movement disorder specialist may be sufficient to diagnose most PMD, there are clinical situations where electrophysiological tests are re...

OBJECTIVES To assess psychopathological symptoms and history of childhood trauma in patients with newly developed psychogenic seizures. METHODS Using validated scales, 178 patients from the general population diagnosed with newly developed seizures were assessed, at a point in time when the nature of their seizures was yet unknown to either doctors or patients. After standardised neurological...

PURPOSE Although most neuroscientists and physicians would argue against Cartesian dualism, Descartes's version of the psyche/soma divide, which has been controversial since he proposed it in the seventeenth century, continues to haunt contemporary neurological diagnoses through terms such as functional, organic, and psychogenic. Drawing on my own experiences as a person with medically unexplai...

The case of 31-year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia with movement disorder is described. The patient had a 7-year history of schizophrenia. In course of the psychiatric treatment the patient presented dystonic movements within abdominal muscles. The dystonic movements were of mixed character, including voluntary and involuntary ones what might have suggested their psychogenic origin. Sub...

Evidence to support the existence of health consequences of psychogenic stress has been documented across a range of domestic species. A general understanding of methods of recognition and means of mitigation of psychogenic stress in hospitalized animals is arguably an important feature of the continuing efforts of clinicians to improve the well-being and health of dogs and other veterinary pat...

Dystonia in association with peripheral trauma is a well-described clinical syndrome. The syndrome goes by many names--"traumatic" dystonia, "fixed" dystonia, peripherally induced dystonia, or complex region pain syndrome (CRPS) dystonia. We reviewed the role of peripheral trauma in the development of dystonia, focusing on 4 subtypes--cervical dystonia, focal limb dystonia, CRPS dystonia, and p...

Chronic cough is a frequent reason for medical referrals in childhood. In patients who do not have signs or symptoms of an underlying respiratory system disease and who do not respond to experimental treatment, psychogenic cough should be considered. In this paper, four patients who were referred to our department with a prediagnosis of psychogenic cough, found to have tic disorder as a result ...

Impotence is syndrome involving the interaction of psychogenic, hormonal, neurological, arterial, venous & sinusoidal factors. Management of impotence has evolved from a time-born pattern of sympathetic discussion and empiric use of medication to a scientifically planned diagnostic protocol and specific treatment regime. The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of pharmacologicall...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a prevalent medical condition. With the advent of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors, the treatment of ED has been revolutionized during the last two decades. Although there are great advances in the diagnosis and treatment of ED, there are two common controversial issues in our practice that merit further discussion. First, psychogenic or organic ED? ED is...