Subjective halitosis is not confirmed by halitometer or third party individuals despite the patient insistently complaints malodor. This condition is named imaginary, delusional, pseudo, non-genuine, psychogenic, psychosomatic halitosis, halitophobia, body odor psychosis, depression, hypochondriasis, olfactory reference syndrome, chronic olfactory paranoid, syndrome, olfactory obsession, obsess...

Aims Nonorganic visual loss, or functional blindness, is estimated to account for up 5% of all presentations blindness. This form blindness can be ascribed either a psychogenic aetiology malingering. Psychogenic often manifestation conversion disorder, in which psychiatric condition impairs the normal physical functioning affected individual. could lead both motor and sensory defects, given tha...

Astasia-abasia refers to the inability to stand or walk despite possessing good motor strength and conserved voluntary coordination. Although it is usually regarded as a psychogenic disorder, organic causes have been reported. Herein we describe a patient who presented with alcohol-induced episodic astasia-abasia. Interestingly, SPECT performed during an episode showed hyperperfusion in the dor...

BACKGROUND The skin occupies a powerful position as an organ of communication and plays an important role in socialization throughout life. The interface between dermatology and psychiatry is complex and of clinical importance. AIMS To document the incidence of cutaneous disorders in patients with primary psychiatric conditions. METHODS Three hundred patients with a primary psychiatric cond...

The occurrence of de novo psychogenic seizures after epilepsy surgery is rare, and is estimated in 1.8% to 3.6%. Seizures after epilepsy surgery should be carefully evaluated, and de novo psychogenic seizures should be considered especially when there is a change in the ictal semiology. We report a patient with de novo psychogenic seizures after anterior temporal lobe removal for refractory tem...

Despite the substantial prevalence of psychogenic disorders (from 50% to 70% of patients who report to physicians of various specialities are treated for psychogenic, functional disorders), these disorders continue to be relatively poorly understood (Hamilton et al., 1996; Mace & Trimble, 1996). Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are one variety of psychogenic disorders. PNES are sudden c...

OBJECTIVES To review the clinical characteristics and associated features found in patients with psychogenic tremor. METHODS Ten-year retrospective review of charts of all patients and videotapes of fifty-one patients diagnosed by the senior author as having psychogenic tremor. RESULTS Seventy patients fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for clinically definite psychogenic tremors. Psychogeni...

Meige's disease is a bizarre, often disabling movement disorder of the elderly characterised by symmetric dystonic contractions of the orofacial muscles; at times other midline muscles such as the tongue and the palatopharyngeal, respiratory, and neck muscles may be affected.' 2 Although the spasms are often thought to be psychogenic in origin, there exists no convincing evidence that they repr...

Psychosis is understood as the brightest manifestations of mental illness, in which patient's activity does not correspond to surrounding reality, reflection real world consciousness sharply distorted, manifests itself behavioral disorders, abnormal pathological symptoms and syndromes. a combination biological (genetic, neuroanatomical, neurophysiological), psychological social factors various ...

Meige's disease is a bizarre, often disabling movement disorder of the elderly characterised by symmetric dystonic contractions of the orofacial muscles; at times other midline muscles such as the tongue and the palatopharyngeal, respiratory, and neck muscles may be affected.' 2 Although the spasms are often thought to be psychogenic in origin, there exists no convincing evidence that they repr...