Medical Conditions Associated with Psychiatric Disorder James R. Rundell Introduction Seven out of 10 office visits to a primary care practitioner are related to a chronic illness.(1) There are high…
Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Disease Maria A. Ron Psychiatric abnormalities are an integral part of neurological disease and their study can improve our understanding of the neural basis of psychiatric…
Adjustment to Illness and Handicap Allan House Introduction Not everybody who develops a serious physical illness will have psychiatric problems as a consequence. To understand why, it is useful to…
Neurasthenia Felice Lieh Mak Introduction The term neurasthenia has had a variegated history, and although retained as a diagnostic entity in the ICD-10 it does not appear in the DSM-IV….
Factitious Disorder and Malingering Christopher Bass David Gill Factitious disorder Introduction Patients with factitious disorder feign or simulate illness, are considered not to be aware of the motives that drive…
Body Dysmorphic Disorder Katharine A. Phillips The dysmorphophobic patient is really miserable; in the middle of his daily routines, talks, while reading, during meals, everywhere and at any time, he…
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Michael Sharpe Simon Wessely Introduction Chronic fatigue syndrome is a controversial condition, conflicts about which have frequently burst out of the medical literature into the popular media….
Pain Disorder Sidney Benjamin Stella Morris Introduction Persistent somatoform pain disorder is an ICD-10 diagnosis, which is included in the group of somatoform disorders. The term pain disorder is used…
Hypochondriasis (Health Anxiety) Russell Noyes Jr. Introduction Hypochondriasis is a preoccupation with the fear that one has, or may develop, serious disease despite evidence to the contrary. So defined, the…
