Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Brain-Centered Approach - Paperback
Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Brain-Centered Approach - Paperback
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by Robert W. Baloh (Author)
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
AmericanitisS 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 earl
Back Jacket
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.
Author Biography
Robert W. Baloh MD
Distinguished Professor of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
