Neural correlates of giving support to a loved one.

abstract：:A number of psychosomatic studies have suggested that alexithymia, impairment in identifying and expressing inner feelings, might somehow affect the course of various illnesses. However, none of these studies have distinguished between an impact of alexithymia on actual pathophysiological change versus an impact only ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Kauhanen J,Kaplan GA,Cohen RD,Salonen R,Salonen JT

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesize that psoriasis patients treated under a partial schedule of pharmacologic (corticosteroid) reinforcement would show less severe symptoms and relapse than those given the same amount of drug under standard conditions. Behavioral conditioning as an inherent component of many pharmacother...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Ader R,Mercurio MG,Walton J,James D,Davis M,Ojha V,Kimball AB,Fiorentino D

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic fitness is associated with numerous physiological adaptations which permit physical stress to be coped with more efficiently. The present experiment examined whether aerobic fitness influences emotional response. Heart rate, biochemical measures (catecholamines, cortisol, prolactin, lactic acid), and self-repo...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sinyor D,Schwartz SG,Peronnet F,Brisson G,Seraganian P

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between anxiety and coronary artery disease (CAD). State (S-ANX) and trait (T-ANX) anxiety were assessed with the State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI), which was administered to 373 patients (230 males, 143 females) 12 to 18 hr prior to their undergoing coronary arteriograp...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Schocken DD,Greene AF,Worden TJ,Harrison EE,Spielberger CD

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty adults willing their body at death to medical science were compared on a number of personality variables with 30 nondonors, both groups equated for age, education, and socioeconomic status. Donors are internally directed, masters of their fate; nondonors rely on chance or luck to explain outcome. A more defin...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Cleveland SE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with recurrent chest pain but no evidence of coronary artery disease often meet diagnostic criteria for panic disorder (PD). However, it can be argued that the phenomenological diagnosis of PD may not be valid in these normal coronary chest pain (NCCP) patients. The purpose of this study is to additi...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Maddock RJ,Carter CS,Tavano-Hall L,Amsterdam EA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that daily stress processes, including exposure and emotional reactivity to daily stressors, are associated with response time inconsistency (RTI), an indicator of processing efficiency and cognitive health. Furthermore, we considered daily stress-cognitive hea...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Stawski RS,Cerino ES,Witzel DD,MacDonald SWS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt was made to relate personality to premenstrual tension (PMT), using two groups of 40 parous and 40 mulliparous women, respectively composed of 20 single and 20 married subjects with an age range of 21 to 30 years. The menstrual instruction group had identical age range and means with the nonmenstrual group....

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Awaritefe A,Awaritefe M,Diejomaoh FM,Ebie JC

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined whether high waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) in women is a biomarker for increased testosterone (T) and higher levels of sexual desire. METHODS:Participants were 99 healthy nonobese premenopausal women. Trait levels of mean bioavailable T were estimated from three saliva samples collected at 8:00 am, 9:...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： van Anders SM,Hampson E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of the study described here were to 1) examine the coping style of patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) and 2) adopt a new interview questionnaire to examine the extent of discriminativeness in the use of coping strategies across different stressful situations. METHODS:A matched case-contr...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Cheng C,Hui WM,Lam SK

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The new DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder was introduced to improve the diagnosis of persons experiencing what used to be called somatoform disorders. So far, it is unclear whether existing self-report measures are useful to detect the new somatic symptom disorder. This study investigates the diagnostic accuracy...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Laferton JAC,Stenzel NM,Rief W,Klaus K,Brähler E,Mewes R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Autonomic nervous system activity is associated with neurobehavioral aspects of pain. Yogis use breathing, relaxation, and mindfulness to tolerate pain, which could influence autonomic responses. To evaluate how the link between autonomic responses and pain is altered by other factors, we compared perceptual ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Cotton VA,Low LA,Villemure C,Bushnell MC

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Somatic symptom ratings covary with neuroticism. Yet, people vary from one another in their ability to report their own emotions and differentiate them from bodily sensations. We hypothesized that stressed individuals with greater emotional awareness would experience somatic symptoms in a more differentiated...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Lane RD,Carmichael C,Reis HT

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Exposure is regarded to be a crucial component of therapies for phobias. According to emotional processing theory, the success of exposure therapy is predicted by activation of subjective and physiological fear responses and their within-session habituation and between-session adaptation. This study tested t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Busscher B,Spinhoven P,de Geus EJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Agency has been conceptualized as a drive toward mastery, control, and effective self-management. Such an agentic approach to life and its challenges may be life-prolonging, a hypothesis not previously investigated. METHOD:In four studies, individual differences in agency were assessed in terms of the frequ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Robinson MD,Bair JL,Persich MR,Moen NR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine ethnic differences in pain sensitivity and relationship of pain tolerance to blood pressure and neuroendocrine factors. METHODS:Fifty-one African Americans (24 men, 27 women) and 55 people from other ethnic groups (primarily Caucasian; 26 men, 29 women) were tested twice for pain sensitivity to t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Mechlin MB,Maixner W,Light KC,Fisher JM,Girdler SS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Psychological factors such as depression affect recovery after whiplash-associated disorders. This study examined the prevalence of pain-related emotions, such as frustration, anger, and anxiety, and their predictive value for postcrash pain recovery during a 1-year follow-up. METHODS:A population-based pros...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Carroll LJ,Liu Y,Holm LW,Cassidy JD,Côté P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation assessed the syndromal nature of menstrual cycle changes in women who experience significant cyclicity of mood by exploring the time course of different symptoms in relation to endocrinologically defined segments of the menstrual cycle. Participants were accepted into the protocol on the basis of a ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Schechter D,Bachmann GA,Vaitukaitis J,Phillips D,Saperstein D

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the biological correlates of effort-reward imbalance and overcommitment to work using measurements over the working day. METHODS:Participants were 197 working men and women aged 45 to 59 years, recruited from the Whitehall II epidemiological cohort. Salivary cortisol was sampled on waking, 30 minut...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Steptoe A,Siegrist J,Kirschbaum C,Marmot M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Placebo effects relieve various somatic symptoms, but it is unclear how they can be enhanced to maximize positive treatment outcomes. Oxytocin administration may potentially enhance placebo effects, but few studies have been performed, and they have had conflicting findings. The study aim was to investigate t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Skvortsova A,Veldhuijzen DS,Van Middendorp H,Van den Bergh O,Evers AWM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial sampling of peripheral blood from six healthy adult male volunteers was performed during daytime waking and nighttime sleeping. In addition, sleep physiology was assessed in all subjects (Ss) and sleep stages scored blind by standard criteria. Samples of plasma were analyzed for cortisol (Co) levels, functional...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Moldofsky H,Lue FA,Eisen J,Keystone E,Gorczynski RM

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Reexamine the claim that elderly Chinese-American women are able to prolong their lives until after the celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival. METHODS:See if independent 1985 to 2000 data for Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-Americans replicate results that were reported using 1960 to 1984 data for Chine...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Smith G

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to compare baseline levels of salivary cortisol, diurnal cortisol slopes, and cortisol reactivity to a mammogram in breast cancer survivors and women without a history of cancer. METHODS:Participants were 33 breast cancer survivors (3-5 years postdiagnosis) and 21 women with no ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Porter LS,Mishel M,Neelon V,Belyea M,Pisano E,Soo MS

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze in a prospective cohort study if depressive symptoms are an independent predictor of mortality in kidney transplant recipients. METHODS:Data from 840 transplanted patients followed at a single outpatient transplant center were analyzed. Sociodemographic parameters and clinical data were collected ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Novak M,Molnar MZ,Szeifert L,Kovacs AZ,Vamos EP,Zoller R,Keszei A,Mucsi I

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between left ventricular (LV) mass and blood pressure (BP) recorded in the following contexts: in the clinic, using standard auscultatory procedures, during a typical day using ambulatory BP monitoring, and in the laboratory environment during behavioral st...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sherwood A,Gullette EC,Hinderliter AL,Georgiades A,Babyak M,Waugh RA,Blumenthal JA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between dietary folate, riboflavin, vitamin B-6, and vitamin B-12 and depressive symptoms in a group of adolescents. METHODS:This cross-sectional study, conducted in all public junior high schools in Naha City and Nago City, Okinawa, Japan, included 3,067 boys and 3,450 girls aged ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Murakami K,Miyake Y,Sasaki S,Tanaka K,Arakawa M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The influence of low socioeconomic status on cardiovascular disease may be mediated in part by sustained activation of stress-related autonomic and neuroendocrine processes. We hypothesized that low socioeconomic status would be associated with heightened ambulatory blood pressure and cortisol output over th...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Steptoe A,Kunz-Ebrecht S,Owen N,Feldman PJ,Willemsen G,Kirschbaum C,Marmot M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five consecutive patients with Cushing's syndrome were studied prospectively prior to treatment. A consistent constellation of psychiatric disturbances was found, including impairments in affect (depressed mood and crying), cognitive functions (decreased concentration and memory), and vegetative functions (decr...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Starkman MN,Schteingart DE,Schork MA

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to assess the effects of participation in a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction program on mood disturbance and symptoms of stress in cancer outpatients. METHODS:A randomized, wait-list controlled design was used. A convenience sample of eligible cancer patients enro...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Speca M,Carlson LE,Goodey E,Angen M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines whether stressful negative life events and pessimism were associated with lower natural killer cell cytotoxicity (NKCC) and T cytotoxic/suppressor cell (CD8+CD3+) percentage in black women co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 (HIV-1) and human papillomavirus (HPV), a viral ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Byrnes DM,Antoni MH,Goodkin K,Efantis-Potter J,Asthana D,Simon T,Munajj J,Ironson G,Fletcher MA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00