thirty five children with a primary complaint of chest pain were prospectively studied. the average age was 9.7 years for boys and 8. 9 years for girls 60% were male. the most frequently diagnosed cause was psychogenic (54.2%). forty percent of the patients were classified as having idiopathic chest pain. precordial pain was encountered in 2. 9%), along with costochondritis and mitral valve pro...

INTRODUCTION Psychogenic disorders, also referred to as somatoform, conversion, somatization, hysteria, and medically unexplained symptoms, are among the most challenging disorders to diagnose and treat. Psychogenic movement disorders are increasingly encountered in specialized clinics, and represent approximately 15% of all patients evaluated in the Baylor College of Medicine Movement Disorder...

The neurobiological basis of psychogenic movement disorders remains poorly understood and the management of these conditions difficult. Functional neuroimaging studies have provided some insight into the pathophysiology of disorders implicating particularly the prefrontal cortex, but there are no studies on psychogenic dystonia, and comparisons with findings in organic counterparts are rare. To...

The term epidemic psychogenic illness is referred to a psychological chain reaction in the members of a group; as the members interact, the symptoms spread from one person to the other with spiraling increase in the number of the victims. The symptoms predominating in the epidemic are those of one or two key persons. Reports of such illness are frequent in school children (Moss and Band, 1982; ...

OBJECTIVE Carnett's test is a simple clinical test in which abdominal tenderness is evaluated while the patient tenses the abdominal muscles. It is useful for differentiating abdominal wall pain from intra-abdominal pain. However, no study has reported its association with psychogenic abdominal pain. We evaluated its diagnostic usefulness in psychogenic abdominal pain. METHODS Two physicians ...

conclusions definite diagnosis of pnea not only reduces significantly unnecessary use of aeds (p = 0.001) and psychotropic drugs, but also increases patients’ productivity and emotional wellbeing. in addition, it leads them to accept diagnosis and follow appropriate treatment. objectives the aim of this study is to investigate occurrence of pnea in patients admitted to the razavi epilepsy depar...

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...

The current term psychogenic non-epileptic seizures were coined by contemporary neurologists and epileptologists, since the implementation of Video electroencephalogram, considered today the gold standard diagnostic tool. Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures comprise a heterogeneous group from the psychiatric point of view. The diagnosis that describes the psychogenic non-epileptic ...

Oral paresthesias are common in clinical practice but they often go unnoticed and untreated. Psychogenic oral paresthesia is an unpleasant sensation of tingling or pricking or a feeling of swelling or burning, with spontaneous onset.It can result due to local, systemic, psychogenic or idiopathic causes. Among psychogenic causes; anxiety disorder and depression are common. We describe a 32-yearo...