Despite the rapid advances in medical science the majority of people who visit a doctor have
medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) symptoms that remain a mystery despite extensive
diagnostic studies. The most common MUS are back pain abdominal pain headache fatigue and
dizziness. This book addresses the obstacles of managing people with MUS in our modern day
society from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Most MUS are psychosomatic in
origin caused by a complex interaction between nature and nurture between biological and
psychosocial factors. Psychosomatic symptoms are as real and as severe as the symptoms
associated with structural damage to the brain. Unique and concise the book explores the
biological and psychosocial mechanisms the clinical features and current and future
treatments of common MUS. Exploring the unsolved in an accessible manner Medically Unexplained
Symptoms invokes the methodologies of medical science history and sociology to investigate
how brain flaws can lead to debilitating symptoms.
