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Altered rectal sensory response induced by balloon distention in patients with functional abdominal pain syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: An inconsistency of visceral sensitivity between lower and higher pressure distention might be a key feature for understanding the pathogenesis of FAPS. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tsukasa NozuMiwako Kudaira Source Type: journals

Validity issues in the assessment of alexithymia related to the developmental stages of emotional cognition and languageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The present findings indicated that subjective difficulties in identifying and describing feelings are associated with empathetic and linguistic abilities. The developmental aspect to emotional awareness herein described suggests that self-reported questionnaires for alexithymia must be carefully constructed and examined, even for adults. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hiroki NishimuraGen KomakiTetsuya IgarashiYoshiya MoriguchiSohei KajiwaraToru Akasaka Source Type: journals

Psychological factors that promote behavior modification by obese patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: The weight-loss effect of team medical care in which counseling is provided by clinical psychologists was investigated in an university hospital obesity (OB) clinic. Nutritional and exercise therapy were also studied. In our previous study, we conducted a randomized, controlled trial with obese patients and confirmed that subjects who received counseling lost significantly more weight than those in a non-counseling group. The purpose of this study was to identify the psychological characteristics assessed by ego states that promote behavior modification by obese patients. Methods: 147 obese patients (116 female...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - September 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hitomi SaitoYutaka KimuraSawako TashimaNana TakaoAkinori NakagawaTakanobu BabaSuguru Sato Source Type: journals

Effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on memory scores and state anxietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: A cyclical combination of yoga postures and supine rest in CM improved memory scores immediately after the practice and decreased state anxiety more than rest in a classical yoga relaxation posture (shavasana). (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - August 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pailoor SubramanyaShirley Telles Source Type: journals

Reduced complexity of activity patterns in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a case control studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an illness characterised by pervasive physical and mental fatigue without specific identified pathological changes. Many patients with CFS show reduced physical activity which, though quantifiable, has yielded little information to date. Nonlinear dynamic analysis of physiological data can be used to measure complexity in terms of dissimilarity within timescales and similarity across timescales. A reduction in these objective measures has been associated with disease and ageing. We aimed to test the hypothesis that activity patterns of patients with CFS would show reduced compl...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - June 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher BurtonHans KnoopNikola PopovicMichael SharpeGijs Bleijenberg Source Type: journals

Biopsychosocial approaches to a patient with vomiting of 10 years' duration – a case of temporal lobe epilepsyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: When an illness persists for many years and conditioning and a vicious cycle occur secondarily, systematic biopsychosocial approaches are needed in addition to general treatment. Also, secondary symptoms make the diagnosis more difficult when efforts at treatment are ineffective. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - January 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hiromi Mutsuura, Mikihiko Fukunaga, Kenji Kanbara, Takami Yagyu, Kazumi Yamamoto, Kana Kitamura, Ikumi Ban and Yoshihide Nakai Source Type: journals

Biopsychosocial approaches to a patient with vomiting of 10 years' duration - a case of temporal lobe epilepsyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: When an illness persists for many years and conditioning and a vicious cycle occur secondarily, systematic biopsychosocial approaches are needed in addition to general treatment. Also, secondary symptoms make the diagnosis more difficult when efforts at treatment are ineffective. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - January 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hiromi Mutsuura, Mikihiko Fukunaga, Kenji Kanbara, Takami Yagyu, Kazumi Yamamoto, Kana Kitamura, Ikumi Ban and Yoshihide Nakai Source Type: journals

Prospects of psychosomatic medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - January 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gen Komaki, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Tetsuya Ando, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi and Mutsuhiro Nakao Source Type: journals

Comparison of temporal changes in psychological distress after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation among underlying diseases in Japanese adult patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: It may be important to provide psychological support to patients throughout the period of HSCT in consideration of differences in mood changes associated with the underlying disease and patient sex in order to provide efficient psychiatric intervention for both better psychiatric and survival outcomes. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - November 21, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wataru Fukuo, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Noriyuki Sakamoto, Hiroe Kikuchi, Maki Hachizuka, Shuji Inada, Yasuhito Nannya, Keiki Kumano, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Mineo Kurokawa and Akira Akabayashi Source Type: journals

General practitioners' responses to the initial presentation of medically unexplained symptoms: a quantitative analysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: To address the potential psychological basis of patients' medically unexplained symptoms, GPs should pay more attention to the specific clues patients present to them. Likewise, in order to receive full attention, patients should try to present their concerns more explicitly. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - November 17, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Teus Kappen and Sandra van Dulmen Source Type: journals

Changes in salivary physiological stress markers induced by muscle stretching in patients with irritable bowel syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: Psychophysiological processing is supposed to play a crucial role in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but there has been no report on modulation of the stress marker chromogranin A (CgA) resulting from muscle stretching. We hypothesized that abdominal muscle stretching as a passive operation would have a beneficial effect on a biochemical index of the activity of the sympathetic/adrenomedullary system (salivary CgA) and anxiety. Methods: Fifteen control and eighteen untreated IBS subjects underwent experimental abdominal muscle stretching for 4 min. Subjects relaxed in a supine position with their knees fully fl...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - November 4, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Toyohiro Hamaguchi, Shin Fukudo, Motoyori Kanazawa, Tadaaki Tomiie, Kunihiko Shimizu, Mineo Oyama and Kohji Sakurai Source Type: journals

The reliability and validity of a Japanese version of symptom checklist 90 revisedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: We confirmed the validity and reliability of SCL-90-R(J) for the measurement of individual distress. The nine primary subscales were consistent with the items of the original English version. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - October 28, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mitsunao Tomioka, Midori Shimura, Mikio Hidaka and Chiharu Kubo Source Type: journals

High-utilizing Crohn's disease patients under psychosomatic therapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ObjectiveFew studies have been published on health care utilization in Crohn's disease and the influence of psychological treatment on high utilizers. Methods: The present sub study of a prospective multi center investigation conducted in 87 of 488 consecutive Crohn's disease (CD) patients was designed to investigate the influence of the course of Crohn's disease on health care utilization (hospital days (HD) and sick leave days (SLD) collected by German insurance companies) and to examine the conditions of high-utilizing patients. Predictors of health care utilization should be selected. Based on a standardized somatic t...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - October 13, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hans-Christian Deter, Jorn von Wietersheim, Gunther Jantschek, Friederike Burgdorf, Brigitta Blum, Wolfram Keller and the German Study Group on Psychosocial Intervention in Crohn's Disease Source Type: journals

The relationship between health-related quality of life and social networks among Japanese family caregivers for people with disabilitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: It is reasonable to conclude that the HRQOL of family caregivers was lower than that of non-family caregivers, and that the HRQOL of family caregivers was estimated by their social networks. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - October 1, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hirokazu Arai, Miwa Nagatsuka and Kei Hirai Source Type: journals

In the shadow of the welfare society ill-health and symptoms, psychological exposure and lifestyle habits among social security recipients: a national survey studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: In Sweden social security is a means-tested financial allowance. The Social Services Act states that an individual is entitled to financial support when his/her needs are not met in any other way. The aim of the present study was to analyse the prevalence and impact of various illness factors and symptoms in social security recipients compared to non-recipients in a welfare state, in this case Sweden. Methods: A simple random sample of 20 100 individuals was selected from a national survey that covered all individuals in the 18–84 year age group in Sweden. A postal survey was thereafter conducted. Multiple lo...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - September 22, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amir Baigi, Eva-Carin Lindgren, Bengt Starrin and Håkan Bergh Source Type: journals

In the shadow of the welfare society ill-health and symptoms, psychological exposure and lifestyle habits among social security recipients: a national survey studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: In Sweden social security is a means-tested financial allowance. The Social Services Act states that an individual is entitled to financial support when his/her needs are not met in any other way. The aim of the present study was to analyse the prevalence and impact of various illness factors and symptoms in social security recipients compared to non-recipients in a welfare state, in this case Sweden. Methods: A simple random sample of 20 100 individuals was selected from a national survey that covered all individuals in the 18-84 year age group in Sweden. A postal survey was thereafter conducted. Multiple logi...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - September 22, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amir Baigi, Eva-Carin Lindgren, Bengt Starrin and Hakan Bergh Source Type: journals

Effects of antidepressant treatment on heart rate variability in major depression: A quantitative reviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: We confirm that TCAs are associated with a large decrease in HRV and increase HR. However, data for SSRIs is not clear. Although the effect of SSRIs on HRV is weaker than for TCAs, evidence shows that SSRIs are associated with a small decrease in HR, and an increase in one measure of HRV. The use of TCAs in depression leads to changes in HRV that are associated with increased risk of mortality. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - June 30, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Louis T van Zyl, Takuya Hasegawa and Katsutaro Nagata Source Type: journals

Childhood physical abuse in outpatients with psychosomatic symptomsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: A history of childhood physical abuse is associated with psychological distress such as anxiety, depression and self-injurious behavior in outpatients with psychosomatic symptoms. It is important for physicians to consider the history of abuse in the primary care of these patients. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - March 21, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Masanori Handa, Hideyuki Nukina, Masako Hosoi and Chiharu Kubo Source Type: journals

Symptoms of somatization as a rapid screening tool for mitochondrial dysfunction in depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Our preliminary data suggest that a small number of specific somatic-related questions can be constructed into a valid screening tool for cases at high risk for having a component of energy metabolism in their pathogenesis. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - February 22, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Gardner and Richard G Boles Source Type: journals

Somatic awareness in the clinical care of patients with body distress symptomsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of this paper is to provide primary care physicians and medical specialists with an experiential psychosomatic framework for understanding patients with body distress symptoms. The framework relies on somatic awareness, a normal part of consciousness, to resolve the dualism inherent in conventional multidisciplinary approaches. Somatic awareness represents a guiding healing heuristic which acknowledges the validity of the patient's physical symptoms and uses body sensations to identify the psychological, physiological, and social factors needed for symptom self-regulation. The experiential approach is based on ...
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - February 21, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Donald Bakal, Patrick Coll and Jeffrey Schaefer Source Type: journals

Psychological and weight-related characteristics of patients with anorexia nervosa-restricting type who later develop bulimia nervosaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: The present findings suggest a tendency toward obesity among patients who cross over from AN-R to BN. Low self-directedness and high parental criticism may be associated with the development of BN by patients with AN-R, although the differences may also be associated with depression. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - February 12, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hiroki Nishimura, Gen Komaki, Tetsuya Ando, Toshihiro Nakahara, Takakazu Oka, Keisuke Kawai, Toshihiko Nagata, Aya Nishizono, Yuri Okamoto, Kenjiro Okabe, Masanori Koide, Chikara Yamaguchi, Satoshi Saito, Kazuyoshi Ohkuma, Katsutaro Nagata, Tetsuro Naruo, Source Type: journals

Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school surveyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Our study indicates that SOC can help the adolescents to choose a coping strategy that is appropriate for the situation and thereby may prevent them from developing PSC. However, additional studies are needed to confirm our findings. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - February 8, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bo Simonsson, Kent W Nilsson, Jerzy Leppert and Vinod K Diwan Source Type: journals

Case report: a case of intractable Meniere's disease treated with autogenic trainingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: AT together with CBT can be a viable and palatable treatment option for Meniere's disease patients who are not responsive to other therapies. (Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychoSocial Medicine - January 25, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fumiyuki Goto, Kimiko Nakai, Takanobu Kunihiro and Kaoru Ogawa Source Type: journals