title: [An analysis of clinical features and therapies of patients with psychogenic dizziness].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To accumulate clinical experience and to direct clinical work.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 208 patients with psychogenic dizziness from department of neurology of Navy General Hospital of PLA were included in the study. Self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), self-rating depression scale (SDS) and Bech-Rafaelsen mania rating scale (BRMS) were used for the evaluation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among all the patients aged from 17 to 77 (the average age: 52), 152 were female and 56 were male. There were 3 types according to different clinical features and therapy prognosis: anxiety and depression type (176 cases, 84.6%) , hysteria type (18 cases, 8.7%) and mania type (14 cases, 6.7%) . The drugs increasing the concentration of excitatory had a good therapeutic efficacy on anxiety and depression type. Alluding cure had notable effect on hysteria type and mood stabilizer had notable effect on mania type.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Women tended to have psychogenic dizziness. It can be divided into three types: anxiety and depression type, hysteria type and mania type. Clinical symptoms and laboratory examination of each type have their own characteristics, and treatment strategies are also different.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Navy General Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100048, China.
authors.forename: Qinwen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Navy General Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100048, China. Email: bjqxk@sina.com.
authors.forename: Xiaokun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety; D001714:Bipolar Disorder; D003863:Depression; D004244:Dizziness / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D055815:Young Adult