The questionnaire includes a selection of cognitive, somatic, and emotional symptoms associated with post-concussion syndrome.
Somatoform disorders are now called somatic symptom and related disorders.
Seen predominantly in male students, it generally manifests as vague somatic symptoms, depression, and difficulty concentrating.
Improving medical recognition of depressive disorders, especially when they present, as most do, with somatic symptoms, is one way.
Somatization is a tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms and to seek medical help for them.
In other cases, there have been those who experienced somatic symptoms and deleterious physiological and cognitive effects.
Psychosomatic reactions also have occurred, where anxiety and other emotional states are experienced physically as somatic symptoms.
There are 20 items on the scale that rate the rating affective, psychological and somatic symptoms associated with depression.
"You will probably have some somatic symptoms for the first several sessions," Annie went on.
Severe somatic symptoms can also be present.