The scientific program included plenary lectures, scientific symposia, workshops, clinical courses, master classes and poster sessions. In total, 37 symposia were submitted of which 28 were accepted for the program. In addition, 7 free paper sessions were organized, which included many of the 113 free oral presentations that were submitted. Fifty of the free oral presentations were accepted as ...

OBJECTIVE Although repeated-measures designs are increasingly common in research on psychosomatic medicine, they are not well suited to the conventional statistical techniques that scientists often apply to them. The goal of this article is to introduce readers to mixed regression models, which provide a more flexible and accurate framework for managing repeated-measures data. METHODS AND RES...

AIM To investigate whether adolescent online gaming time and the additive effect of gaming motives were associated with depressive, musculoskeletal, and psychosomatic symptoms. The hypothesis was that adolescents who engage in online gaming with escape motives and increased online gaming time have higher probability for depressive, musculoskeletal, and psychosomatic symptoms compared to adolesc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE A previous meta-analysis showed that being bullied during childhood is related to psychosomatic problems, but many other studies have been published since then, including some longitudinal studies. We performed a new meta-analysis to quantify the association between peer victimization and psychosomatic complaints in the school-aged population. METHODS We searched onli...

INTRODUCTION Clinical evidence indicates that certain types of movement disorders are due to psychosomatic factors. Patients with myoclonic movements are usually treated by a variety of therapeutic agents. Autogenic training (AT), a recognized form of psychosomatic therapies, is suitable for certain types of neurological diseases. We describe a patient with myoclonus who failed to respond to co...

Whilst ethology has garnered the attention of historians of science, particularly those interested in the biological and behavioural sciences, historians of medicine have yet to explore ethology’s medical significance. Ethology, “the biological study of behaviour”, is historically associated with the work of Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, who, alongside Karl von Frisch, were awarded the ...

The rise in deaths attributed to coronary thrombosis and duodenal ulcer has been widely commented upon. It has been suggested that these two conditions are merely examples of the psychosomatic diseases, the incidence of which has risen directly or consecutively with the rising mental stress associated with an increasingly complex civilization. In this paper certain epidemiological facts relatin...

Practitioners understand the wholeness and unity of their patients. Instead of being considered isolated organ systems or enzyme cycles, patients are understood as coherent entities composed of coordinated and interrelated processes and systems. This fundamental understanding guides investigative and clinical care approaches in psychosomatic medicine. As an integrative science, psychosomatic re...