The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes
Subtitle: Neurobiology and Illness Behavior in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illness, Irritable Bowel, and Premenstrual Dysphoria
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780789012593
Subjects: Diseases & disorders; Health psychology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Psychology; Mental Health; Medical; Somatoform Disorders; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience; Colonic Diseases, Functional; Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic; physiopathology
First sentence: Functional syndromes characterized by malaise, widespread or localized pain, cognitive abnormalities, anxiety, depression, and somatic preoccupation have been identified for more than two centuries.