心因性めまいの精神生理学的研究

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The subjects in this study were 18 patients (mean age 37.0) diagnosed as psychogenic dizziness, in whom the occurrences of the symptom were associated with psychological factors proper to the individuals and the symptom was chracterized as a feeling of faintness. No significant abnormalities in neurological and laboratory examinations, which might be related to the dizziness, were found in these patients. Characteristics of their personality derived from the interview were such as nervousness, perfectionism, tendency to tension, dependency and immaturity. Results of Rorschach test suggested that, because of their immature personality, they could hardly maintain the ego stability and then the rationality tended to be confused against emotional stresses. The psychogenic factors in these patients were such as indemnity problems relating to traffic accidents (6 caases), sexual conflicts (7 cases) and inbstability in one's social situation (5 cases). When the patients were introduced to the stressful words concerning their psychogenic factors, vertebral flows measured by Doppler ultrasound decreased down to approximately 10% of those in the resting state and they simultaneously felt the faintness, whereas they showed no responses to common words. From thee results, the principal psychophysiological process in psychogenic dizziness was thought to be transient vertebro-basilar insuffiency via sympathetic vasoconstriction induced by a reaction of the specific immature personality to critical emotionl stresses.
日本心身医学会の論文
1979-12-01

心因性めまいの精神生理学的研究

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