title: [Study on psychoprophylaxis and monoamines neurotransmitter of patients with burning mouth syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic ache disease, usually occurring in middle aged and old women. This study sought to understand the psychopathologic aspect and monoamines neurotransmitters in the plasma of the patients with BMS.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty cases were selected (26 females, 4 males); 30 normal control subjects were similar to the BMS cases on age and sex. All subjects were required to complete the Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ), and the Self-report Symptom Inventory, Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90) questionnaire. In case a subject's L (lie) score exceeded 50, she (he) would be removed from the test. 2 ml of blood was drawn from the subject under restine conditions with a fast in the morning to examine norepinephrine and epinephrine contents by high efficient liquid chromatography. Chi-square test, analysis of variance and t'-test were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The BMS group had higher scores of nervousness (N) and poikilergasia (P) and lower score of extro/introversion (E) as compared with the control (P < 0.05). The personality types in BMS group were focused on introversion and instability, but in the control group the types were focused on extroversion and stability (P < 0.05). The scores of 9 emotional factors of BMS group were significantly higher than those of the control group (P < 0.05), which indicated that the BMS patients had suffered from serial psychic disorders. The level of plasma norepinephrine in the BMS patients was higher than that of the control (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The personality of BMS patients raised body response to harmful stimulations, and obvious psychic disorders in the patient may cause the functional disorders in central and sympathetic nervous systems, which may be associated with BMS' occurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine, College of Stomatology, WCUMS, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002054:Burning Mouth Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000523:psychology*; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000097:blood*; D010551:Personality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine