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We should encourage coping strategies with the capacity of breaking vicious circles that maintain symptoms....
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PMID: 21139661
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Neuropsychological symptom validity testing is increasingly used even in psychiatric expert assessment. Low scores on symptom validity tests can only demonstrate exaggerated symptoms. However, symptom validity tests do not address the question of whether the result is intentionally produced or motiv...
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PMID: 21192479
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We compared the SPECT images between the groups.
Significant hyperperfusion was found at the left superior temporal gyrus and the left supramarginal gyrus in the panic disorder patients when compared to the controls (family-wise error [FWE], P < .001). The somatoform disorder patients showed hyperpe...
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PMID: 20673555
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We explored the relationship of somatization to pain. We found somatization to be predictive of pain severity and current pain intensity as well as a range of averaged indices of pain over time (p < .0001). We further found somatization to be predictive of a range of negative psychological experienc...
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PMID: 21141298
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If there is no indication for tooth removal purely based on dental criteria, but the patient requests for removal due to fear of dental treatment, or because of a mental disorder such as posttraumatic stress disorder, a somatoform pain disorder or a disorder of body image perception, then the questi...
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PMID: 21158189
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Doctors diagnose and treat disease; illness is the experience of, and response to, a disease by patients and the people in their lives. Discrepancies between disease and illness (eg, adjustment to the sick role, treatment-related difficulties, denial of medical illness, and psychiatric comorbidity)...
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PMID: 20951278
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Primary care physicians commonly deal with patients who present with a somatic complaint for which no clear organic etiology can be found. This article discusses how a psychiatrist thinks about somatic symptoms (eg, pain, insomnia, weight loss and loss of appetite, fatigue and forgetfulness, sexual...
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PMID: 20951279
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Since a variety of psychiatric as well as somatic conditions may present with depressive symptoms, careful diagnostic evaluation is warranted. The following article summarizes the most important aspects and provides a clinical guideline for the diagnostic process.
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PMID: 21043014
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The relationship between the rate of chronic pain-related disability and depression and somatization levels as well as the influence of pain duration on Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) axis II findings were assessed in a three centre investigation.
The study sa...
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PMID: 20600559
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We aimed to construct the picture of developmental epidemiology for psychosocial aspects in families of β-thalassaemia major patients attending a tertiary care hospital in north India.
The accelerated longitudinal design was used. The sample consisted of 100 children with β-thalassaemia and their...
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PMID: 20966522
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Retrospective assessment of adverse childhood experiences is widely used in research, although there are concerns about its validity. In particular, recall bias is assumed to produce significant artifacts. Data from a longitudinal cohort (the British National Child Development Study; N=7710) and the...
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PMID: 21117468
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A 73-year-old male patient with delusional disorder, somatic type (DDST) who had a delusion of skin infestation with insects was presented. He was taking multiple medications to treat concomitant physical diseases. Milnacipran was selected as the treatment drug because of its low drug-interaction pr...
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PMID: 20386103
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To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with depressive disorders at Department of Neurology in general hospitals.
A total of 596 consecutive patients with depressive symptoms, such as insomnia, or somatic symptoms were collected prospectively and those who were unable to answer the que...
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PMID: 20979894
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The results highlight the importance of a differentiating examination of prevalence rates for migrants. They also serve as a basis for further investigation of the relation between migration and mental health as well as for developing a cultural sensitive health care....
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PMID: 20340069
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The findings indicate that anxiety disorders are common in the setting of medical disease and are associated with several types of psychosomatic presentations. The links between agoraphobia without history of panic disorder and illness denial may provide an explanation for some discrepancies that ha...
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PMID: 20584526
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Functional somatic symptoms are prevalent in all medical settings, but their management is hampered by an obsolete theoretical framework and inadequate classification systems. Epidemiological and neurobiological studies suggest that the functional somatic syndromes, e.g. fibromyalgia, chronic fatigu...
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PMID: 20566160
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This paper describes a patient who is suffering from PTSD with elements of hypochondria, panic attacks and episodes of depression in comorbidity with kidney stones. Kidney stones provoked egzacerbation of psychiatric symptoms. Kidney stones and frustration about them have taken part of provoking fac...
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PMID: 20562755
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Pain is one of the most ubiquitous problems of today's world, its impact being far-reaching. Current conceptualizations of pain medicine adopt a bio-psycho-social perspective. In this model, pain is best described as an interactive, psycho-physiological behavioral pattern that cannot be divided into...
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PMID: 20562750
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We will describe each item that DIGS contents as well as the use of this diagnostic instrument....
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PMID: 20562746
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The frequency of somatoform disorder (SFMD) (with catatonic signs) in Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies suggests that SFMD are part of the spectrum of Lewy body diseases....
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PMID: 20479358
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Mental disorders (depression, anxiety and somatization) are frequent in Primary care and are often associated to physical complaints and to psychosocial stressors. Mental disorders have in this way a specific presentation and in addition patients may present different associations of them. Sometimes...
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PMID: 20568364
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Depersonalization (DP) and derealization (DR) are considered to be highly underdiagnosed. Therefore the development of screening instruments is important. From the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale (CDS) two items were extracted discriminating best patients with clinical significant DP from patients...
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PMID: 19544244
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The PsyPAM-system is a promising and user-friendly screening tool with a short processing time, and is well worth further development and testing in daily clinical practice....
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PMID: 19908174
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When introducing a psychosomatic attribution, therapists use discursive strategies to exert interactional pressure on the patient; while simultaneously using careful and implicit formulations. Three linguistic patterns could be found in which patients subtly refute, drop or undermine the psychosomat...
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PMID: 19914023
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Christian Stiglmayr,
Patricia Schimke,
Till Wagner,
Diana Braakmann,
Ulrich Schweiger,
Valerija Sipos,
Thomas Fydrich,
Christian Schmahl,
Ulrich Ebner-Priemer,
Nikolaus Kleindienst,
Jeannette Bischkopf,
Anna Auckenthaler and
Thorsten Kienast
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We measured the psychometric qualities of the DSS in a total of 294 patients and healthy controls. Internal consistency of the DSS was high (Cronbach's alpha = .92; Gutmann's split-half r = .92). We found good support for convergent, discriminant, and differential validity. There was clear evidence...
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PMID: 20408027
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The distribution of psychiatric disorders and of chronic medical illnesses was studied in a population-based sample to determine whether these conditions co-occur in the same individual. A representative sample (N = 1464) of adults living in households was assessed by the Composite International Dia...
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PMID: 20379689
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We confirmed that somatic/affective, rather than cognitive/affective, symptoms of depression are associated with MI severity and cardiovascular prognosis. Interventions to improve cardiovascular prognosis by treating depression should be targeted at somatic aspects of depression....
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PMID: 19691872
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Patients with somatoform disorders requiring inpatient treatment manifest deficits in both emotional awareness and ToM functioning. These deficits may underlie the phenomenon of somatization....
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PMID: 20223925
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Medically unexplained symptoms are the defining feature of somatoform disorders (SFD) as currently included in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition. Cognitive, behavioral, biological, and social variabl...
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PMID: 20192784
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We discuss the role of hypnosis when working psychodynamically with a patient, and whether and when insight is important or necessary for change of behavior....
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PMID: 20499541
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Periods of deliberate fasting with restriction to intake of solid food are practiced worldwide, mostly based on a traditional, cultural, or religious background. Recent evidence from clinical trials shows that medically supervised modified fasting (200-500 kcal nutritional intake/day...
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PMID: 20425196
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The diagnoses of neurotic diseases, stress related and somatoform disorders (ICD-10 F 40 - 48) were the most prevalent group (48 %) within the sample. It was a statistically significant predictive factor in a later declaration of disability and invalidity. In this diagnosis group (F 40 - 48) more pa...
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PMID: 20178066
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We investigated the ways in which ethnic harassment (EH), gender harassment (GH), and generalized workplace harassment (GWH) combined to predict target individuals' job-related, psychological, and health outcomes. Competing theories regarding additive, exacerbating, and inuring (i.e., habituating to...
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PMID: 20230066
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The purpose of this study was to investigate clinical and psychological characteristics of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) patients with trauma history.
The clinical and psychological characteristics of 34 TMD patients with trauma history were compared with those of...
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PMID: 19758407
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The purpose of this study was to investigate clinical and psychological characteristics of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) patients with trauma history.
The clinical and psychological characteristics of 34 TMD patients with trauma history were compared with those of...
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PMID: 19758407
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Daily variations in loneliness predicted subsequent feelings of daytime dysfunction (B = 0.16, p < .05), and daytime dysfunction predicted subsequent loneliness (B = 0.07, p < .05), adjusted for covariates. Loneliness continued to predict subsequent daytime dysfunction when depressed affect was held...
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PMID: 20230084
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With unexpected symptoms controlled, observation of symptom displays increased reports of expected symptoms significantly. In addition, the presence of another person of the same gender as the participant increased the production of expected symptoms, even when symptoms were not modeled by the confe...
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PMID: 20230091
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We examined the role of individual factors (i.e., age, self-concept differentiation [SCD], perceived control) in physical and psychological reactivity to interpersonal, network, home, and health stressors. Findings were consistent with the perspective that adults were less reactive to stress on days...
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PMID: 20230133
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Clinical parameters predict health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but some patients have impaired HRQOL despite being in clinical remission.
To identify personality and psychological distress variables associated with HRQOL in IBD...
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PMID: 19255844
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In most cases of patients' requesting extractions, the ethical principle of nonmaleficence will play a decisive role in the dentist's decision making. In cases in which the request appears influenced by a specific mental condition such as a phobia of dental treatment, extraction rarely is justifiabl...
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PMID: 20123879
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Our results suggest that high level of unemployment may mean high level of premature exit from the work-force due to disability retirement. The epidemic of depression-related disability contributes significantly to this general trend. In future, it will be important to find ways to support depressio...
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PMID: 19495533
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In a population-based survey, bearing grudges is associated with a history of pain disorders, cardiovascular disease, and stomach ulcers. These results point to the importance of psychosomatic research in medical settings....
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PMID: 19387519
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Depressed persons have a higher risk of developing somatic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. Somatic comorbidity in depressed persons may be explained by mediating mechanisms such as unhealthy lifestyle and unfavorable pathophysiological disturbances. There are alterna...
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PMID: 20456788
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This article provides a summary for advocacy, court testimony, assessment, treatment, prevention, and further research studies in the field of childhood sexual abuse.
A literature review identifies the psychiatric, social, and disease disorders to which this populatio...
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PMID: 20051079
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Emi Yamano,
Sanae Fukuda,
Takako Joudoi,
Kei Mizuno,
Masaaki Tanaka,
Yosky Kataoka,
Junko Kawatani,
Miyuki Takano,
Akemi Tomoda,
Kyoko Imai-Matsumura,
Teruhisa Miike,
Fumihiko Matsuda and
Yasuyoshi Watanabe
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The correlation between temperament and character dimensions with new-onset of fatigue-induced symptoms differed as the students advanced into higher grades. In terms of physical symptoms in males, traits correlated with fatigue-induced symptoms included Novelty Seeking (headaches OR, 1.36; 95% CI,...
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PMID: 20399335
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