Somatic Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Varsamis, J.; Adamson, John D.

doi:10.1177/070674377602100101

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“…36,37 Other studies have even suggested that headaches might be an early symptom appearing frequently (17% to 23%) at the onset of schizophrenia. [38][39][40] Taken together, these clinical results are not consistent and need to be clarified by additional experimental studies. [41][42][43][44][45][46][47] Experimental studies on pain perception in schizophrenia are mainly based on a psychophysical method (selfmeasurement of pain perception using a scale) or a method using the signal detection theory (the pain response is measured by the individual's ability to discriminate the sensory stimuli and by response criteria reflecting their attitude after painful stimuli).…”

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Are Patients With Schizophrenia Insensitive to Pain? A Reconsideration of the Question

Bonnot

Anderson

Cohen

et al. 2009

The Clinical Journal of Pain

112

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Review of clinical and experimental data indicates that in most situations behavioral pain reactivity and self-reported responses to pain are reduced in schizophrenia. However, there is little or no physiologic evidence supporting pain insensitivity in schizophrenia. It can be suggested that the widely accepted notion of reduced pain sensitivity in schizophrenia is related more to a different mode of pain expression than to a real endogenous analgesia. Further studies are required and potential directions for future research are proposed to clarify this issue.

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confidence: 55%

Are Patients With Schizophrenia Insensitive to Pain? A Reconsideration of the Question

Bonnot

Anderson

Cohen

et al. 2009

The Clinical Journal of Pain

112

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“…Only the old literature reported that somatic complaints for which there is no adequate evidence of physical illness are frequently the precursor of overt psychotic episodes. Most frequently observed are neuromuscular, gastrointestinal, and ear-nose and throat manifestations [Nussbaum, 1960;Offenkranz, 1962;Varsamis and Adamson, 1976].…”

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Psychotic disorders in Prader–Willi syndrome

Vogels

Hert

Descheemaeker

et al. 2004

American J of Med Genetics Pt A

104

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The Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetically determined developmental disorder caused by abnormalities of the proximal region of chromosome 15q11-13. In a previous study, we reported that psychotic episodes, occurring in 16% of persons with PWS, had an onset in adolescence, never occurred in persons with paternal deletion, and were exclusively associated with maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) or imprinting abnormalities (IM). In order to gain a better understanding of the psychopathology and to further refine the psychiatric diagnosis, we describe in more detail the psychopathological manifestations of six adults with a history of psychotic episodes. All these individuals had a detailed psychiatric examination, including the use of the operational criteria (OPCRIT) checklist. An identifiable subtype of psychotic disorder was associated with PWS. Characteristics include early age of onset, acute onset, polymorphous, and shifting symptomatology and a need for psychiatric hospitalization. The presence of precipitating stress factors and a prodromal phase with physiological symptoms was reported in all patients. Current diagnostic categories do not allow an unequivocal psychiatric diagnosis.

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“…We also found that high levels of AS were associated with somatic complaints. In the past, somatic complaints were considered as a central aspect of some forms of schizophrenia (Varsamis & Adamson, 1976). Somatic symptoms are also common in prodromal phase of schizophrenia (Gourzis, Katrivanou, & Beratis, 2002;Offenkrantz, 1962).…”

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Aberrant salience in adolescents is related to indicators of psychopathology that are relevant in the prodromal phases of psychosis

Lisi

Raballo

Ribolsi

et al. 2020

Early Intervention Psych

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Aim: Aberrant salience has been considered as a predisposing factor during prodromal phases of psychosis and in ultra high-risk subjects. Most studies investigated the presence of aberrant salience in general population as a measure of vulnerability to psychosis. This study aimed atinvestigating the level of aberrant salience in a sample of Italian high-school students.Methods: Aberrant salience was measured with the Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI) and its association with measures of general psychopathology (Youth Self Report [YSR]) was tested. A sample of 312 high school students (115 boys, 197 girls; age range: 14 to 19) was recruited.Results: Within the ASI and the YSR, the subscales did associate with each other at medium to large effect size, while the associations of the ASI subscales to the YRS scales had small effect sizes, indicating that the two tools measure different constructs. Latent Class Analysis revealed a distribution of aberrant salience across three classes with the intermediate class corresponding to more than half of the sample (58.3%). The class with the highest endorsement of the ASI items included 101 subjects (32.4%). Greater differences by classes were found in the "increased significance" and the "impending understanding" subscales. Higher aberrant salience was found on the anxious/depressed, the somatic complaints, and the thought problems scales of the YSR.

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Somatic Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Are Patients With Schizophrenia Insensitive to Pain? A Reconsideration of the Question

Are Patients With Schizophrenia Insensitive to Pain? A Reconsideration of the Question

Psychotic disorders in Prader–Willi syndrome

Aberrant salience in adolescents is related to indicators of psychopathology that are relevant in the prodromal phases of psychosis

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