Somatic Symptom Disorders

Question 1

What are the three somatic symptom disorders in the DSM-5?

Answer 1

Somatic Symptom Disorder, Illness Anxiety Disorder, Conversion Disorder

Question 2

Excessive thought, distress, and behavior related to somatic symptoms

Answer 2

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Question 3

Neurological symptom(s) that cannot be explained medically (i.e., disease) or culturally sanctioned behavior

Answer 3

Conversion Disorder

Question 4

Unwarranted fears about a serious illness in the absence of any significant somatic symptoms

Answer 4

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Question 5

Intentionally faking symptoms for gain

Answer 5

Malingering

Question 6

Falsification of psychological or physical symptoms, without evidence of gains from those symptoms

Answer 6

Factitious Disorder

Question 7

Chronic worries about developing a serious medical illness

Answer 7

Hypochondriasis

Question 8

To be diagnosed, symptoms must exist for at least _________.

Answer 8

6 months

Question 9

People receiving primary care report that ____ of their symptoms have not received a medical explanation

Answer 9

2/3

Question 10

Person fabricates or induces symptoms in another person and then presents that person to others as ill, impaired, or injured

Answer 10

Munchausen syndrome

Question 11

What are the parts of the brain involved in somatosensory disorders?

Answer 11

The somatosensory cortex -processing bodily sensations, rostral anterior insula, and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)

Question 12

What are possible interventions?

Answer 12

CBT, Family therapy, low-dose antidepressants, hypnoses, acceptance and commitment therapy