Methods Somatization-specific behaviour was operationalized as reporting of inexplicable dental symptoms (eg pain), remarkable frequent attendance at a dental surgery, inexplicably high treatment ...

Objectives This study was a first attempt to derive an estimate of the likely incidence of somatization-specific behaviour in a dental setting and its relationship with both somatic symptoms and ...

Somatization can result in disability and high health care costs, the article adds. In fact, another article in Archives of General Psychiatry estimated that annual medical costs can be twice as ...

Somatization is the expression of psychological or emotional factors as physical (somatic) symptoms. For example, stress can cause some people to develop headaches, chest pain, back pain, nausea ...

Somatization is a condition where emotional stressors trigger physical pain without the presence of disease. The new study is published in the October 2005 issue of the American Journal of ...

Somatization may represent the most extreme segment of this immersion spectrum. The focus on one’s bodily symptoms, exacerbated by fear and anxiety, is so severe that the symptoms become not ...

Somatization, especially after a traumatic event, can be very sudden and startling. But somatization can also be very subtle and, dare I say, mundane.

Adults who have suffered childhood trauma exhibit a higher degree of somatization, i.e. mental suffering expressed through physical complaints that may lead them to consulting a physician.

Objectives. To examine the resource utilization of patients with high levels of somatization and health-related anxiety. Design. Consecutive patients on randomly chosen days completed a self-report ...

Objective To examine relationship between pre-injury somatization and post-injury mental health on concussion recovery among adolescents. Design Retrospective chart review. Setting Multi-disciplinary ...

Psychological factors, particularly anxiety, increased risk for developing infectious gastroenteritis, which in turn increased risk for postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome, according to new ...