Psychogenic dizziness
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Vendhan Ramanujam M.B.B.S [2]
Synonyms and keywords: Functional dizziness; hyperventilation syndrome; nonspecific dizziness; phobic postural vertigo; psychiatric dizziness; psychic dizziness; psychophysiologic dizziness; somatization
Overview
Psychogenic dizziness is a dizziness which is not characterized by true vertigo and it can be replicated by hyperventilation and psychiatric symptoms that usually precede its onset. It occurs in anxious or phobic individuals and do not include any specific symptoms[1][2][3]. Another new proposal defines psychogenic dizziness narrowly as the dizziness which occurs exclusively in combination with other symptoms as part of a recognized psychiatric symptom cluster and this symptom cluster is not itself related to vestibular dysfunction[4][5]. Psychogenic dizziness should not be confused with the phenomenon of psychogenic overlay where the preexisting nucleus of nonpsychiatric dizziness is augmented by psychiatric factors that occur along with it.
References
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|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Nedzelski, JM.; Barber, HO.; McIlmoyl, L. (1986). "Diagnoses in a dizziness unit". J Otolaryngol. 15 (2): 101–4. PMID 3712537. Unknown parameter
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|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Gresty, MA.; Bronstein, AM.; Brandt, T.; Dieterich, M. (1992). "Neurology of otolith function. Peripheral and central disorders". Brain. 115 ( Pt 3): 647–73. PMID 1628197. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Furman, JM.; Jacob, RG. (1997). "Psychiatric dizziness". Neurology. 48 (5): 1161–6. PMID 9153437. Unknown parameter
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