Psychiatry · Psychiatry / Somatic symptom disorders
Briquet syndrome
also: hysteria (historical); Somatization disorder
Chronic multiple unexplained somatic symptoms beginning before age 30.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Somatic symptom disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, 10:1 female predominance; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- hysteria (historical); Somatization disorder
Etiology & mechanism
Somatic symptom amplification with psychosocial stress.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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Shares symptoms with
None.
Shares genes with
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