BACKGROUND: This paper reviews current knowledge regarding the prevalence and
associated features of somatisation disorder and hypochondriasis in population-based and …

Generalised anxiety disorder is a persistent and common disorder, in which the patient has
unfocused worry and anxiety that is not connected to recent stressful events, although it can …

Health anxiety involves excessive worries about one's health along with beliefs one has an
illness or may contract a serious disease. Concerning evidence suggests that health anxiety …

Up to 50 or 60% of patients with chronic epilepsy have various mood disorders including
depression and anxiety. Whereas the relationship between epilepsy and depression has …

Background Hypochondriasis is prevalent in primary care, but the diagnosis is hampered by
its stigmatizing label and lack of valid diagnostic criteria. Recently, new empirically …

The features of severe health anxiety, intense and persistent anxiety about one's present
and future health, are described. In common with other anxiety disorders such as GAD …

The present study examined the extent to which safety behaviors exacerbate symptoms of
hypochondriasis (severe health anxiety). Participants were randomized into a safety …

This review examined (a) whether hypochondriacal/health-anxious individuals hold distinct
assumptions about health and illness,(b) if triggering these assumptions leads to increased …

Methods Subjects who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy and completed a
symptom questionnaire between January 2008 and December 2011 were analyzed. The …

Although hypochondriasis (HC) is considered a somatoform disorder in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text revision), some authors have pointed out …