Medically Unexplained Symptoms

TRAMA

Despite the rapid advances in medical science, the majority of people who visit a doctor have medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), symptoms that remain a mystery despite extensive diagnostic studies. The most common MUS are back pain, abdominal pain, headache, fatigue, and dizziness.  This book addresses the obstacles of managing people with MUS in our modern day society from both a historical and contemporary perspective.Most MUS are psychosomatic in origin, caused by a complex interaction between nature and nurture, between biological and psychosocial factors.  Psychosomatic symptoms are as real and as severe as the symptoms associated with structural damage to the brain.  Unique and concise, the book explores the biological and psychosocial mechanisms, the clinical features, and current and future treatments of common MUS. Exploring the unsolved in an accessible manner, Medically Unexplained Symptoms invokes the methodologies of medical science, history, and sociology to investigate how brain flaws can lead to debilitating symptoms. 

SOMMARIO

Introduction   Chapter 1. Overview of Medically Unexplained Symptoms                 Pain                 Brain flaws                 Fear                 Anxiety                 Dizziness                 Stress                 Fatigue                 Diagnostic uncertainty   Chapter 2. Early ideas on hysteria                 Hysteria and female sexuality                 Bizarre behaviors                 Hysteria and the occult                 Nerves                 Hysteria, a nervous disorder                 Early treatments of hysteria                 Spinal irritation and the spinal reflex theory                 The attack on the female genitalia                 Hysteria and fasting girls   Chapter 3. The Golden age of Hysteria                 Briquet’s syndrome                 Charcot and his hysterical circus                 Hysteria and hypnosis                 Borderlands of hypnosis                 Nature or nurture                 Ideas about hysteria evolve                 Neurasthenia and neurosis                 Americanitis                 S Weir Mitchell and the Civil War                 The Rest Cure                 S Weir Mitchell, the enigma                 Nerve doctors                 Evolution and the brain   Chapter 4. Psychosomatic illness in the 20th Century                 Freud, the early years                 Breuer’s famous patient, Bertha Pappenheim                 Freud and Breuer’s book on hysteria                 Suppressed memories and childhood sexuality                 Freud’s model of the mind                 Overall impact of psychoanalysis                 Physicians, patients and psychosomatic symptoms                 Common sense psychotherapy                 Alternate medical treatments and suggestibility                 War and Psychogenic Illness                 PTSD the prototypical delayed stress disorder                 Relationship between PTSD and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)                 Psychosomatic medicine   Chapter 5. Biological mechanisms of Psychosomatic Symptoms                 The biological link between stress and illness                                 The hypothalamic-sympathetic-adrenal axis                                 The brain’s emotional center, the limbic system                                 The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis                 Pavlov and neural plasticity                 Hebb’s Synapse                 Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity                 Stress and the limbic system                                 Nerve growth factors and stress                                 The amygdala-prefrontal cortex connection                 Central sensitization, a model of neuroplasticity                                 The descending pain modulatory system (DPMS)                

AUTORE

Robert W. Baloh MD Distinguished Professor of Neurology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030591809
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 454 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XVII, 204 p. 1 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 204
• Pagine Romane: xvii