Matthew Hotopf

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Matthew Hotopf is a British psychiatrist.

Hotopf developed an interest in chronic fatigue syndrome when, as a medical student, he suffered from glandular fever and enrolled into Peter White's study on peristent fatigue following an Epstein-Barr virus infection.[1]

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Oxford University a prestigious university located in Oxford, England renowned for its teaching and research in health and medicine

somatic symptom disorder A psychiatric term to describe an alleged condition whereby a person's thoughts somehow cause physical symptoms. The actual existence of such a condition is highly controversial, due to a lack of scientific evidence. It is related to other psychiatric terms, such as "psychosomatic", "neurasthenia", and "hysteria". Older terms include "somatization", "somatoform disorder", and "conversion disorder". Such terms refer to a scientifically-unsupported theory that claims that a wide range of physical symptoms can be created by the human mind, a theory which has been criticized as "mind over matter" parapsychology, a pseudoscience.

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