abstract：:In a study designed to identify the electrophysiologic characteristics of the Transcendental Meditation Program, 52 periods of spontaneous respiratory suspension (RS) were observed in 18 subjects during the practice of this program. These periods were correlated with some but not all the subjective experiences of pure...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Badawi K,Wallace RK,Orme-Johnson D,Rouzere AM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of depression in cancer patients has been hampered by difficulty in establishing diagnostic criteria, since neurovegetative signs and symptoms may be attributable either to depression or physical illness. Confusion has also arisen in defining the boundary between "normal" grieving with illness, and "abnormal...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Bukberg J,Penman D,Holland JC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantics and history of psychosomatic medicine are not popular topics nowadays, if they ever were; yet both of them constitute indispensable facets of any discipline that lays claim to a separate identity, as psychosomatics does. The latter, being an inchoate and inherently complex field of study, is especially in ne...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Lipowski ZJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：:To study serotonergic involvement in the development of gastric lesions following activity wheel stress, three groups of rats (gastric lesions, no gastric lesions, and home--cage controls) were killed following exposure to the experimental procedures. The brains were dissected into eight specific areas and subjected t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Hellhammer DH,Hingtgen JN,Wade SE,Shea PA,Aprison MH

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research with animals has indicated a central nervous system effect on the immune system. This report describes findings of a possible psychologically mediated effect on the delayed hypersensitivity reaction to tuberculin in humans. Seven tuberculin positive subjects evidenced a decreased response to tuberculin...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Smith GR Jr,McDaniel SM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential relationship between specific subtypes of premenstrual changes and specific subtypes of mental disorder was studied. Premenstrual changes were evaluated with the Premenstrual Assessment Form, which provides specific criteria for the classification of the various subtypes of premenstrual change. The Re...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Endicott J,Halbreich U,Schacht S,Nee J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Adolescent Structured Interview (ASI), adapted from the interview that assesses Type A behavior of adults, was administered to 204 adolescents. These adolescents also completed a battery of self-report questionnaires that measured the three major components of Pattern A: competitive achievement-striving, speed and...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Siegel JM,Matthews KA,Leitch CJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between change in mode of housing and corresponding blood pressure (BP) change was investigated among 568 male prisoners as an analogue to animal studies which have shown that crowding elevates BP. The transfer from single occupancy cells to multiple occupancy dormitories was associated with a statist...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： D'Atri DA,Fitzgerald EF,Kasl SV,Ostfeld AM

更新日期：1981-04-01 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：:The Monroe County Psychiatric Case Register and hospital records were used to investigate the incidence of anorexia nervosa in Monroe County, New York, during the periods 1960-1969 and 1979-1976 to determine whether the number of newly diagnosed cases has increased over time. The results support the general clinical i...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Jones DJ,Fox MM,Babigian HM,Hutton HE

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of syngeneic P815 mastocytoma in DBA/2J male mice was evaluated following social and physical stress exposure. Although social isolation following tumor cell transplantation enhanced tumor growth, it appeared that it was the abrupt change in social conditions, rather than the isolation per se which was responsi...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sklar LS,Anisman H

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight normal adolescent Swedish boys, aged 16, provided two sets of blood samples for plasma testosterone assays as well as data on a number of personality inventories and rating scales assessing aggression, inpulsiveness, lack of frustration tolerance, extraversion, and anxiety. Physical variables such as puber...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Olweus D,Mattsson A,Schalling D,Löw H

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：:This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that patients with MI are distinguished from persons with a less serious illness, more by subjective interpretations of the emotional impact of life events than by exposure to a surfeit of life events that purportedly representative samples of the population have judged ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Byrne DG,Whyte HM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of seven esophageal atresia infants is described. These children differed in the quality of maternal care received and the amount of oral experience permitted during the first year of life. Observation of these infants suggest differences between effects of maternal depression and effects of abnormal o...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Dowling S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who underwent repetitive repetitive coronary angiograms at an average interval of 17 months completed the Jenkins Activity Survey (n = 66) and were given the Rosenman diagnostic interview to measure Type A behavior (n = 45). Significant progression of coronary artery disease was judged to be an increase in oc...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Krantz DS,Sanmarco MI,Selvester RH,Matthews KA

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two separate studies assessed the influence on menstrual distress and related inhibition of such variables as predictability of onset, dispositional susceptibility to cultural expectations, and the attentional focus provided by labels. Greater predictability of onset was associated with more positive feedlings about m...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Chernovetz ME,Jones WH,Hansson RO

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, and Sullivan Diabetic Adjustment Scale were administered to 105 adolescent girls with diabetes. Results indicate that levels of self-esteem and depression highly correlate with the level of adjustment as assessed on the Diabetic Adjustment Scale (DAS). That i...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sullivan BJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty subjects classified as either Type A or Type B interacted in pairs by pressing buttons which transmitted messages through a television screen while the heart rate and digital blood volume pulse were computer-monitored. Partners could cooperate, compete, punish, reward, or withdraw on each interaction and could s...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Van Egeren LF

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Davidson and Schwartz (1) have proposed a psychobiological analysis of anxiety that emphasizes the patterning of multiple processes in the generation and self-regulation of this state. The present article specifically reviews recent research on cognitive and somatic components of anxiety. A dual component scale which ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Schwartz GE,Davidson RJ,Goleman DJ

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a well-known reaction to separation in all species of macaques studied except the bonnet (M. radiata), in whom this reaction has never before been observed. We have produced the depressive response of postural collapse and social withdrawal in a bonnet infant by altering the social structure of the group...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Kaufman IC,Stynes AJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has suggested that patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) demonstrate similar psychological characteristics that distinguish them from the medically ill populations, and that these findings may bear etiologic and prognostic importance. In this report, a larger sample was studied and the pr...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Houpt JL,Gould BS,Norris FH Jr

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one healthy women were studied during one menstrual cycle in order to determine whether cortisol and growth hormone responsivity to psychological stress was related to estrogen levels. Blood was drawn approximately three times per week for analysis of estradiol, progesterone, cortisol, and human growth hormone....

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Abplanalp JM,Livingston L,Rose RM,Sandwisch D

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study consisted of 1101 Caucasian, male outpatients, who were screened for depression and hypertension in order to test the hypothesis that there is a unique relationship between these two illnesses. Depression was assessed by the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) while diastolic blood pressure (BP) was acce...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Friedman MJ,Bennet PL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disturbance was studied in relation to psychiatric and physical symptoms for 214 male psychiatric outpatients and 248 male nonpatients. Our self-report instrument required that subjects describe the frequency of symptoms precisely on a five-point scale from "every day" to "not at all." Percentages are based on t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sweetwood HL,Kripke DF,Grant I,Yager J,Gerst MS

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social support is defined as information leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved, esteemed, and a member of a network of mutual obligations. The evidence that supportive interactions among people are protective against the health consequences of life stress is reviewed. It appears that social sup...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Cobb S

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects with reported sleep-onset disturbance were given progressive relaxation training, placebo, or no-treatment. All three conditions showed significant improvement in daily reported sleep onset over the duration of the study. Between-condition effects were limited to relaxation superiority over no-treatment on St...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Borkovec TD,Weerts TC

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral decarboxylase inhibitor carbidopa (L-alphamethyl-dopa-hydrazine) allowed safe intravenous administration of L-DOPA in amounts sufficient to alter cortical average evoked response (AER) and learning function in 13 depressed patients. The apparently rapid conversion of L-DOPA to dopamine, as reported from...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Henry GM,Buchsbaum M,Murphy DL

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahydrocortisol (H4F) and tetrahydrocortisone (H4E) were determined for a group of 15 depressed patients and 25 normal controls following the administration of cortisol-4-C14. The ratio, H4F/H4E, was significantly greater for the depressed patients than for the normal controls (P less than 0.001), although the sum ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Persky H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with a genetic susceptibility to experimental hypertension were exposed daily for 13 weeks to a conflict situation that resulted in food deprivation and the application of electric shock. Other subjects were either food deprived, shocked, both food deprived and shocked but without conflict, or not experimentally ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Friedman R,Dahl LK

更新日期：1975-09-01 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：:A predominantly white, middle class sample of pregnant women (N = 93) completed the AACL (Anxiety), the DACL (Depressive Mood), the SCL (Somatic Symptoms) and the IPAT Anxiety Questionnaire at the second, fifth and eighth months of pregnancy. A menstrual history questionnaire was administered on the first testing occa...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Lubin B,Gardener SH,Roth A

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00