Medically Unexplained Symptoms
"Medically Unexplained Symptoms" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Persistent health symptoms which remain unexplained after a complete medical evaluation. A cluster of symptoms that consistently appear together but without a known cause are referred to as a MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYNDROME (MUS).
| Descriptor ID |
D000071896
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.541
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| Concept/Terms |
Medically Unexplained Symptoms- Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Medically Unexplained Symptom
- Symptom, Medically Unexplained
- Symptoms, Medically Unexplained
- Unexplained Symptom, Medically
- Unexplained Symptoms, Medically
- Somatic Symptoms
- Somatic Symptom
- Symptom, Somatic
- Symptoms, Somatic
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medically Unexplained Symptoms" by people in Profiles.
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Association between mental health trajectories and somatic symptoms following a second lockdown in Israel: a longitudinal study. BMJ Open. 2021 09 02; 11(9):e050480.
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Long covid: reshaping conversations about medically unexplained symptoms. BMJ. 2021 07 28; 374:n1859.
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Home confinement during the COVID-19: day-to-day associations of sleep quality with rumination, psychotic-like experiences, and somatic symptoms. Sleep. 2021 07 09; 44(7).
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Impact of a Resiliency Training to Support the Mental Well-being of Front-line Workers: Brief Report of a Quasi-experimental Study of the Community Resiliency Model. Med Care. 2021 07 01; 59(7):616-621.
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Somatic symptom disorders and long COVID: A critical but overlooked topic. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2021 Sep-Oct; 72:149-150.
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Father-child bonding and mental health in gay fathers using cross-border surrogacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reprod Biomed Online. 2021 10; 43(4):756-764.
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A comparison of emergency department presentations for medically unexplained symptoms in frequent attenders during COVID-19. Clin Med (Lond). 2021 07; 21(4):e399-e402.
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Persistent Somatic Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Sense of Threat. Psychosom Med. 2021 05 01; 83(4):338-344.
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Acute Stress Disorder Among Frontline Health Professionals During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation. Psychosom Med. 2021 05 01; 83(4):373-379.
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Adolescents with somatic symptom disorder experienced less anxiety and depression than healthy peers during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Acta Paediatr. 2021 Aug; 110(8):2385-2386.