WHETHER YOU HAVE pain related to an injury, chronic symptoms from an illness, or just feel tired all the time, it’s understandable to worry about your health and even experience anxiety over it. But ...

Every doctor encounters patients who complain of symptoms without identifiable physical causes. According to a recent review in The Lancet, one third of all symptoms lack somatic explanations. How can ...

Many suffer not only with mental symptoms of anxiety and other mental health conditions, but also physical symptoms, referred to as “somatic” (from the Greek root soma-, meaning “body”). The Body ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Somatic symptom disorders were common among people hospitalized for posttraumatic stress disorder. Somatic ...

This is the third in a series of blogs on the trouble caused by DSM 5's mishandling of the boundary between medical and mental illness. The first explored how a new and untested DSM 5 diagnosis - ...

A recent clinical breakthrough reveals that accelerated transcranial direct current stimulation (aTDCS) provides rapid, substantial relief for treatment-resistant body distress disorder (BDD). By ...

A single dose of tocilizumab cleared inflammation in depressed patients, but did it ease their symptoms? A proof-of-concept ...