title: Psychosomatic disorders in childhood: Who? - When? - and How?
abstract: Psychosomatic disorders are likely to be due to an interplay between biological predisposition and psychosocial stress. They are among the commonest chronic or recurrent disorders of childhood. Who gets PSD? It is commonly a family disorder, with a background of disturbed personal relationships. When? A chronology of PSD (age and disease) should be studied further. Many children do not "grow out of it". How? A biological abnormality (eg. autonomic) may underlie PSD, but pscychosocial factors are undeniably important.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology