what is Functional somatic symptoms
INTRODUCTION. Functional somatic symptoms and syndromes are a major health issue. They are common, costly, persistent and may be disabling. Most of the current literature pertains to specific syndromes defined by medical subspecialties. Indeed, each medical subspecialty seems to have at least one somatic syndrome.he concept of a general functional somatic syndrome does not lead to better treatments. Antidepressant efficacy ranges widely in different functional somatic syndromes, and may be more accurately predicted by the presence of comorbid mood disorders. A recent systematic review showed that â ...