Cyberchondria, driven by online health information, heightens anxiety and affects mental health. Addressing this issue is ...

Illness anxiety disorder (IAD)—previously known as hypochondriasis and sometimes informally referred to as hypochondria—is a mental health disorder that involves an intense fear of having or ...

Swedish researchers studied people with and without hypochondriasis — also known as illness anxiety disorder — a diagnosis ...

The medical condition called hypochondriasis is defined as worry over an imagined illness with exaggeration of symptoms, no matter how insignificant, that lasts for at least six months and causes ...

Hypochondriasis was another medical condition that by the 19th Century had acquired purely emotional associations. “It was basically the male version of what Victorian doctors called ‘hysteria ...

Extreme overvalued beliefs are often shared by others in depraved online subcultures. Proximal warning behaviors and distal ...

This 15-year follow-up study of adolescents with depression and healthy controls, which were screened from a Swedish population, demonstrates a strong relationship between the presence of somatic ...

The condition was previously called hypochondriasis, but the stigma drove professionals to call it health anxiety instead. Dr Willson, who co-authored a book on the condition, says there is a ...

It is theoretically possible to diagnose various other psychotic conditions in adolescence, such as delusional disorder. However, with the exception of psychotic disorder not otherwise specified ...

I received training through Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the treatment of Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hypochondriasis ...