1.A comparative study of conversion disorder and somatization disorder about life events, social support and coping skills.
Seung Ki KIM ; Tack Sool KWEON ; Hyun Woo KIM
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 1991;30(5):840-848
No abstract available.
Adaptation, Psychological*
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Conversion Disorder*
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Somatoform Disorders*
2.A comparative study of conversion disorder and somatization disorder about life events, social support and coping skills.
Seung Ki KIM ; Tack Sool KWEON ; Hyun Woo KIM
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 1991;30(5):840-848
No abstract available.
Adaptation, Psychological*
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Conversion Disorder*
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Somatoform Disorders*
3.Clinical pictures of somatization disorder.
Ho Chan KIM ; Dong Won OH ; Jeong Soo DO
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 1992;31(2):240-251
No abstract available.
Somatoform Disorders*
4.Disappearance of Hysteria(Conversion Disorder) and the Evolutionary Brain Discord Reaction Theory.
Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 2016;24(1):28-42
OBJECTIVES: The author tried to find out reasons why and how hysteria(and conversion disorder) patient numbers, which were so prevalent even a few decades ago, have decreased and the phenotype of symptoms have changed. METHODS: The number of visiting patients diagnosed with conversion disorder and their phenotype of symptoms were investigated through chart reviews in a psychiatric department of a University hospital for the last 12 years. Additionally, the characteristics of conversion disorder patients visiting the emergency room for last 2 years were also reviewed. Those results were compared with previous research results even if it seemed to be an indirect comparisons. The research relied on Briquet P. and Charcot JM's established factors of the vicissitudes of hysteria(and conversion disorder) which has been the framework for more than one hundred and fifty years since hysteria has been investigated. RESULTS: The author found decreased numbers and changes of the phenotype of the hysteria patients(and conversion disorder) over the last several decades. The decreased numbers and changes of the symptoms of those seemed to be partly due to several issues. These issues include the development of the diagnostic techniques to identify organic causes of hysteria, repeated changes to the symptom descriptions and diagnostic classification, changes of the brain nervous functions in response to negative emotions, and the influence of human evolution. CONCLUSIONS: The author proposed that the evolutionary brain discord reaction theory explains the causes of disappearance of and changes to symptoms of hysteria(conversion disorder). Most patients with hysteria(conversion disorder) have been diagnosed in the neurological department. For providing more appropriate treatment and minimizing physical disabilities to those patients, psychiatrists should have a major role in cooperating not only with primary care physicians but with neurologists. The term 'hysteria' which had been used long ago should be revived and used as a term to describe diseases such as somatic symptom disorder, functional neurological symptoms, somatization, and somatoform disorders, all of which represent almost the same vague concept as hysteria.
Brain*
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Classification
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Conversion Disorder
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Emergency Service, Hospital
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Humans
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Hysteria
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Phenotype
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Physicians, Primary Care
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Psychiatry
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Somatoform Disorders
5.Difference of pain senditivity in right and left fingers in the patients with somatoform disorder.
Dug Ki LEE ; Myung Jung KIM ; Il Seock SUH
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 1991;30(1):159-164
No abstract available.
Fingers*
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Humans
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Somatoform Disorders*
6.A study on the application of the constitutional model originated by Je-Ma Lee to the somatic symptoms of the patients with somatoform disorders.
Ji Young SONG ; Byoung Kwan PARK ; Byung Hoee KOHO ; Jung Ho LEE ; Hwan Il CHANG ; Seong Il JEON
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 1993;32(6):863-885
No abstract available.
Humans
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Somatoform Disorders*
7.A study on types of family systems of patients with somatization disorder using faces III.
Tae Wook YOO ; Hyung Youn KANG ; Hyun Hee OH ; Sang Hwa LEE ; Hye Ree LEE ; Bang Bu YOUN
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1991;12(6):21-27
No abstract available.
Humans
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Somatoform Disorders*
8.Efficacy of Benzodiazepines to Laryngopharyngeal Reflux: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Study.
Kyung Hoon PARK ; Bon Jo KOO ; Jung June PARK ; Sun Ki KIM ; Sun Myung CHOI ; Soon Uk KWON ; Sang Won YOON
Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 2005;48(10):1267-1270
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Anti-anxiety drugs such as benzodiazepines are often given to globus patients in practice, based on the notion that globus is a kind of somatization disorder. However, many of globus are caused by laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and the effects of anti-anxiety drugs to LPR are unknown. The study goal was to assess the efficacy of benzodiazepines to LPR. SUBJECTS AND METHOD: We selected 51 LPR patients, who were confirmed by 24-hour double-probe ambulatory pH monitoring. Patients were allocated into case and control groups at random and entered into a double-blind trial. Patients in the control group received proton pump inhibitors and prokinetics. Diazepam was added to patients in the case group. Assessments were made after 4 weeks of treatment using reflux symptom index (RSI) and reflux finding score (RFS). RESULTS: In both groups, RSI and RFS were improved significantly at the end of the study. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups. CONCLUSION: Diazepam seems to have little efficacy in the treatment of LPR.
Anti-Anxiety Agents
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Benzodiazepines*
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Conversion Disorder
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Diazepam
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Gastroesophageal Reflux
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Humans
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Laryngopharyngeal Reflux*
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Proton Pump Inhibitors
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Somatoform Disorders
9.A Case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
Kyung Hee KIM ; Joon Won KANG ; Keon Su LEE
Journal of the Korean Child Neurology Society 2009;17(2):237-241
Munchausen syndrome by proxy(MBP) is the act of one person fabricating or inducing an illness in another to meet his or her own emotional needs through the treatment process. MBP is thought to be rare. We report the case of 11-year-old girl who presented with general weakness, dizziness, headache, and nausea and she was suspected of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Child
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Dizziness
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Headache
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Humans
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Mothers
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Munchausen Syndrome
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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
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Nausea
10.A Case of Paraneoplastic Stiff-Person Syndrome Presenting Multiple Somatic Symptoms.
Woo Jae MYUNG ; Eun Ho KANG ; Bum Hee YU
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2009;48(5):394-397
Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is an unusual autoimmune neurological disease. We report a woman who developed stiff-person syndrome associated with thymoma. A 42-year-old woman visited a general hospital complaining of progressive rigidity in her neck and both lower legs. She also had other symptoms including whole body pruritus, dysphargia, dysarthria, diplopia, and a visual hallucination-like symptom. Emotional distress preceded her symptoms. After a extensive neurologic workup, she was transferred from the neurologic ward to the psychiatric ward under the impression of conversion or somatoform disorder. During her psychiatric admission, we found a prolonged involuntary MUAP discharge on her electromyograph, and positive anti-GAD and anti-GQ1b antibodies. In addition, a chest CT scan revealed a thymic epithelial tumor. We report a case of stiff-person syndrome presenting multiple unexplained somatic symptoms, which was initially diagnosed as a conversion or somatoform disorder.
Adult
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Antibodies
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Conversion Disorder
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Diplopia
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Dysarthria
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Female
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Hospitals, General
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Humans
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Leg
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Neck
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Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
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Pruritus
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Somatoform Disorders
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Stiff-Person Syndrome
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Thorax
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Thymoma
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Thymus Neoplasms