Almost no one is spared: Four out of five people experience physical complaints during their lifetime for which no clear cause can be found. Whether it’s back pain, heart palpitations, or stomach ...

Mental disorders that cause physical symptoms are not included in a major health trends study, despite them impacting as many as 1 in 21 adults, researchers have found. Somatoform disorders could be ...

Mental disorders that cause physical symptoms are not included in a major health trends study, despite them impacting as many as 1 in 21 adults, researchers have found.

This story has been making rounds online lately. My understanding is that a severely ill child underwent multiple invasive procedures at one hospital and has been tentatively diagnosed as having a ...

Somatoform disorders are among the commonest and most important psychiatric disorders seen in primary health care facilities (settings) in many parts of the world. Because of cultural factors the ...

The flowchart (Figure 1) describes the selection of the 62 (56%) patients with somatoform-functional pain and the 49 (44%) patients with somatic-nociceptive pain. Of the orthopedic group, 6 patients ...

Here is the question: I have a family member who never seems to have a good day in their life. They’re always complaining of some ailment, and always running to doctors, who usually find no serious ...

Ashley Lauretta is a journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her bylines can be found in WIRED, the Atlantic, SELF, ELLE, elemental, espnW, Men’s Journal and more. Ashley Lauretta is a journalist based in ...

Objectives:The aim of this clinical trial was to explore whether psychodynamic-interactional therapy leads to a better outcome in the treatment of somatoform pain disorders when combined with body ...

A multinational retrospective study shows that alopecia areata is significantly associated with an increased risk for psychiatric disorders, especially among women.