Medically Unexplained Symptoms

A Brain-Centered Approach

By: Robert W. Baloh

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Despite the rapid advances in medical science, the majority of people who visit a doctor have medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), symptoms that remain a mystery despite extensive diagnostic studies. The most common MUS are back pain, abdominal pain, headache, fatigue, and dizziness. This audiobook addresses the obstacles of managing people with MUS in our modern-day society from both a historical and contemporary perspective.

Most MUS are psychosomatic in origin, caused by a complex interaction between nature and nurture, between biological and psychosocial factors. Psychosomatic symptoms are as real and as severe as the symptoms associated with structural damage to the brain. Unique and concise, the audiobook explores the biological and psychosocial mechanisms, the clinical features, and current and future treatments of common MUS.

Exploring the unsolved in an accessible manner, Medically Unexplained Symptoms invokes the methodologies of medical science, history, and sociology to investigate how brain flaws can lead to debilitating symptoms.

©2020 Robert W. Baloh (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Wow

Was this book written over 100 years ago? I'm not sure why men still think that "hysteria" is still actually a disorder. And any woman with symptoms that can't, yet, be validated by a known disease/virus is psychosomatic. Stress does make everyone more susceptible to illness, but stress isn't psycosomatic, it's real, and so is the illness. I really hope people don't believe this crap or they might bring the lobotomy back for women with "hysteria". It wasn't that long ago that doctors blamed the mother for their child's autism. That's just lazy, uneducated science. Let's try to find the actual causes for these illnesses instead of chalking them up to "hysteria". When I went to the hospital because I became numb from the waste down, the doctor said it was psychosomatic. It was Multiple Sclerosis.