New DSM-5 creates loose category for those who have disabling somatic symptoms. Feb. 27, 2013— -- Lori Chapo-Kroger was an active intensive care unit nurse, but after a series of mysterious ...

Mental distress among young women in India often manifests not in words, but through silence, somatic symptoms, and self-harm—signals our clinical and social systems repeatedly fail to recognise ...

Every doctor encounters patients who complain of symptoms without identifiable physical causes. According to a recent review in The Lancet, one third of all symptoms lack somatic explanations. How can ...

May 8, 2009 — Women with suspected myocardial ischemia who also have somatic depressive symptoms are likely to have worse outcomes than women without depression. However, those with cardiovascular ...

“In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” As we head into the first full month of spring, as the words of Alfred Tennyson wend their way through the minds of so many young ...

There are five possible explanations whenever someone presents to a doctor with physical symptoms that have not yet been diagnosed: •the symptoms may be a manifestation of a medical illness that will ...

I’d heard that somatic exercise can be helpful for “this time of life” but honestly, I didn’t even know what “somatic” meant. Natalie Kuhn, co-CEO and founding teacher at The Class, filled me in. In ...