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 ...

A network analysis reveals that individuals who co-use alcohol and cannabis face higher symptom severity across all mental health domains than those who use only alcohol.

Persistent somatic symptoms are a common feature in many psychiatric disorders. Moderate-to-severe cases often necessitate treatment in specialised inpatient psychiatric settings. This study evaluated ...

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 ...

Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) causes extreme anxiety about physical symptoms, which can disrupt your daily life. You can try therapy and lifestyle changes to help manage SSD symptoms. For an SSD ...

“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 ...

Should Your Response to Pain Be Considered “Abnormal”? Somatic symptom disorder and the DSM-5 The new category of “somatic symptom disorder” created for the DSM-5 evaluates the coping abilities of ...

PMS is characterized by physical (somatic) and psychological symptoms and affects, on average, 48% of women of reproductive age. Common psychological symptoms include irritability, depressed mood and ...

Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed is a clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in trauma, somatic symptoms, and psychopathology ...

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 ...