Objective Women have consistently been shown to report greater numbers of physical
symptoms. Our aim in this study was to assess gender differences for specific symptoms and …

Aims: Little is known about the prevalence and characteristics of functional somatic
syndromes (FSS) such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia (FM), chronic fatigue …

Purpose Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) currently constitute the main diagnostic
criterion of somatoform disorders. It has been proposed that the required dichotomization of …

OBJECTIVE: Many questionnaires for assessment of common somatic symptoms or
functional somatic symptoms are available and their use differs greatly among studies. The …

Distressing somatic symptoms are ubiquitous both in mental disorders and medical
diseases. From a psychometric perspective, the structure of somatic symptom distress is …

Abstract The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) were introduced in
1995 by an international group of investigators to expand the traditional domains of the …

The DSM category of “psychological factors affecting medical condition” had virtually no
impact on clinical practice. However, several clinically relevant psychosomatic syndromes …

Objective: To review international research on somatic presentations often seen together
with or attributed to psychopathology. For conceptual clarity, we refer to these presentations …

OBJECTIVE: Major changes to the diagnostic category of somatoform disorders are being
proposed for DSM-5. The effect of eg the inclusion of psychological criteria (criterion B) on …

Functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD) is characterized by neurological
symptoms that are unexplained by other traditional neurological or medical conditions. Both …