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Neurobiology of Somatization

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<strong>Somatization</strong>, a definition<br />

• a tendency to experience and communicate<br />

somatic distress in response to<br />

psychosocial stress<br />

• indirect, unconscious, unintentional<br />

• subjective reality<br />

• pathophysiology evolving<br />

• 1960s = Briquette's syndrome<br />

• 1980s first in DSM III<br />

• 2013 new classification DSM V

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