Somatoform Disorders

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Social Environment Inventory for the pediatric office. 
  • A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States. 
  • A descriptive analysis of minor depression. 
  • A longitudinal study of life events and metabolic control among youths with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of paroxetine for noncardiac chest pain. 
  • A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • A study of somatization disorder in a community population utilizing grade of membership analysis. 
  • Accurate awareness of heartbeat in hypochondriacal and non-hypochondriacal patients. 
  • An archival prospective study of mental health and longevity. 
  • Association of somatic symptoms with depression and anxiety in clinical patients of general hospitals in Guangzhou, China. 
  • Belief in life after death and mental health: findings from a national survey. 
  • Binge eating in an obese community sample 
  • Childhood somatic complaints predict generalized anxiety and depressive disorders during young adulthood in a community sample. 
  • Chronic posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain in Vietnam combat veterans. 
  • Clinical correlates and symptom patterns of anxious depression among patients with major depressive disorder in STAR*D. 
  • Clinical features of depressed outpatients with and without co-occurring general medical conditions in STAR*D. 
  • Comparison of lifetime psychiatric diagnoses in Premenstrual Syndrome Clinic and community samples. 
  • Contribution of job strain, job status and marital status to laboratory and ambulatory blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension. 
  • Daily well-being of cancer survivors: the role of somatic amplification. 
  • Depressed adolescents and comorbid psychiatric disorders: are there differences in the presentation of depression? 
  • Developing a screening index for community studies of somatization disorder. 
  • Diagnosing depression in patients with medical illness. 
  • Difference in treatment outcome in outpatients with anxious versus nonanxious depression: a STAR*D report. 
  • Disease-prone and self-healing personalities. 
  • Dissociation, somatization, and affect dysregulation: the complexity of adaptation of trauma. 
  • Emotional reactions to pain predict psychological distress in adult patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). 
  • Enhancing Diagnostic Performance of Symptom-Based Criteria for Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Additional History and Limited Diagnostic Evaluation. 
  • Explained and unexplained medical symptoms in generalized anxiety and panic disorder: relationship to the somatoform disorders. 
  • Fatigue in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Reflects Mood and Symptom-Reporting Behavior Rather Than Biochemical Activity or Anemia. 
  • Forms of atypical depression and their response to antidepressant drugs. 
  • Generalized anxiety and C-reactive protein levels: a prospective, longitudinal analysis. 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder: nature and course. 
  • Health Service Use Among Chinese American Older Adults: Is There a Somatization Effect? 
  • Health status, somatization, and severity of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Identifying illness: pitfalls and discoveries. 
  • Idiopathic pain disorders--pathways of vulnerability. 
  • Illness behavior as a predictor of pain and overt behavior patterns in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Incidence and Risk Factors for Pelvic Pain After Mesh Implant Surgery for the Treatment of Pelvic Floor Disorders. 
  • Influence of the number and severity of somatic symptoms on the severity of depression and suicidality in community-dwelling elders. 
  • Irritable bowel syndrome and somatization. 
  • Irritable bowel syndrome is significantly associated with somatisation in 840 patients, which may drive bloating. 
  • John Henryism and the health of African-Americans. 
  • Letter: irritable bowel syndrome is significantly associated with somatisation - authors' reply. 
  • Longitudinal impact of IBS-type symptoms on disease activity, healthcare utilization, psychological health, and quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease. 
  • Marital status, marital satisfaction, and body image dissatisfaction 
  • Measures of neuroticism and disease status in coronary angiography patients. 
  • Medically unexplained physical symptoms, somatization disorder and abridged somatization: studies with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. 
  • Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain. 
  • Nepali concepts of psychological trauma: the role of idioms of distress, ethnopsychology and ethnophysiology in alleviating suffering and preventing stigma. 
  • Neurovegetative symptoms in chronic pain and depression. 
  • No increase in prevalence of somatization in functional vs organic dyspepsia: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Pain in depression: STAR*D study findings. 
  • Painful physical symptoms and treatment outcome in major depressive disorder: a STAR*D (Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression) report. 
  • Parents' and teachers' concordance with children's self-ratings of suicidality: findings from a high-risk sample. 
  • Patterns of physical symptoms and relationships with psychosocial factors in adolescents. 
  • Personality assessment inventory internalizing and externalizing structure in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: associations with aggression. 
  • Physician Satisfaction in Treating Medically Unexplained Symptoms. 
  • Physician race and treatment preferences for depression, anxiety, and medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and physical health symptoms among women seeking help for relationship aggression. 
  • Predicting personality in adulthood from college MMPI scores: implications for follow-up studies in psychosomatic medicine. 
  • Predictors of antidepressant use among older adults: have they changed over time? 
  • Pseudoseizure manifestations in two preschool age children. 
  • Pseudoseizures in the military. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in medical outpatients complaining of palpitations. 
  • Psychiatric syncope: a new look at an old disease. 
  • Psychosomatic symptoms in parents 2 years after the death of a child with cancer. 
  • Reconsidering somatic presentation of generalized anxiety disorder in Nepal. 
  • Religion and beliefs about treating medically unexplained symptoms: a survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists. 
  • Sex differences in vulnerability and maladjustment as a function of parental investment: an evolutionary approach. 
  • Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index: Accurate Assessment of Inflammatory Burden or Reflection of Low Mood and Somatoform Behavior? 
  • Single-item screens identified patients with elevated levels of depressive and somatization symptoms in outpatient physical therapy. 
  • Social correlates of the dimensions of depression in the elderly. 
  • Somatic complaints and psychopathology in children and adolescents: stomach aches, musculoskeletal pains, and headaches. 
  • Somatic, positive and negative domains of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. 
  • Somatization disorder in a US southern community: use of a new procedure for analysis of medical classification. 
  • Somatization disorder in a community population. 
  • Somatization disorder in the community. A study of diagnostic concordance among three diagnostic systems. 
  • Somatization in the conceptualization of sickle cell disease. 
  • Somatization symptoms in the community: a rural/urban comparison. 
  • Symptoms of depression among community-dwelling elderly African-American and white older adults. 
  • The mind, the body, health, and disease. What do we know, what should we do? 
  • Using intake and change in multiple psychosocial measures to predict functional status outcomes in people with lumbar spine syndromes: a preliminary analysis. 
  • Video/EEG monitoring in the evaluation of paroxysmal behavioral events: duration, effectiveness, and limitations. 
  • [Multicomponent therapy of fibromyalgia syndrome. Systematic review, meta-analysis and guideline]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology