Psychological Profile of Patients With Meniere's Disease

Psychological assessment of patients with Menière's disease

“…The psychopathology (e.g. anxiety and depression) in Menière patients was also found by other researchers (Coker et al, 1989;Martin et al, 1991;Takahashi et al, 2001). The obsessivecompulsive and neurotic personality found by others, could not be confirmed in our study (Savastano et al, 1996;Stephens, 1975).…”

“…Earlier studies have shown that Menière patients experience more anxiety, depression and phobia (Coker et al, 1989;Martin et al, 1991;Takahashi et al, 2001), while others did not (Savastano et al, 1996). It was also shown that Menière patients experience the same level of anxiety, depression and somatic complaints compared to patients with only vertigo (Monzani et al, 2001).…”

Psychiatric comorbidity in different organic vertigo syndromes

“…Subgroups of Menière patients were repeatedly reported to have a high comorbidity with anxiety and depressive disorders [8][9][10]. A subgroup of patients with MD report that (A) the attacks can be triggered or exacerbated by stress and distressing situations, and that (B) they feel subjectively heavily distressed by the attacks and their unpredictability.As a result, these patients develop frequently undetected, pronounced social and agoraphobic anxiety with avoidance behavior, which in turn can lead to strong impairment of daily activities [8][9][10]. In this subgroup in addition to Menière attacks patients suffer from additional somatoform dizziness that can be regarded as atypical anxiety attacks.…”

Posterior Fossa Tumours Presenting to Psychiatrists

“…One study (Berrios, 1988) looking at ENT outpatient attenders found that GHQ scores were highest in those suffering from tinnitus, another (Harrop Griffiths, 1987) found prevalence of psychiatric disorder in tinnitus sufferers to be 48% compared with 7% in those suffering uncomplicated hearing loss. The association between vertigo and psychiatric disorder was recognised by Gowers in 1893 (Pratt and McKenzie, 1958) and in those with Meniere's disease, psychiatric disorder is prevalent in the majority of vertigo sufferers compared with under a half of non-sufferers (Coker et al, 1989). It is unwise to infer too much about the cause from either the presence or severity of psychiatric symptoms.…”