During the second half of the last century, biopsychosocial research in psychosomatic medicine largely ignored the brain. Neuroscience has started to make a comeback in psychosomatic medicine research and promises to advance the field in important ways. In this paper we briefly review select brain imaging research findings in psychosomatic medicine in four key areas: cardiovascular regulation, ...

The effects of Breslow's seven health practices on health were examined. The Today Health Index (THI), a questionnaire for self-evaluation of physical and mental health, was applied to male workers of a private company as well as their wives. The subjects resided in the suburbs of Tokyo and the average ages of the males and females were 41.5 and 38.4 years, respectively. Statistical results wer...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of bullying behaviours in schoolchildren and the association of bullying with psychological and psychosomatic health. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Government and non-government schools in New South Wales, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 3918 schoolchildren attending year 6 (mean age 11.88 years), year 8 (13.96), and year 10 (15.97) classes from 115 s...

background:  this  study  aimed  to  prospectively  analyze  the  effect  of  a  major  earthquake on the prevalence of psychological disorders such as acute stress disorder (asd), anxiety, depression,  mixed  anxiety  depression  disorder  (madd),  phobia,  aggressive  behavior, insomnia, psychosomatic disorders and also sociodemographic aspects among residents of rural community sample in eas...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to explore what work-related factors were associated with job stress among pediatricians in Japan, as determined by the demand-control-support model and psychosomatic symptoms. We sent an anonymous questionnaire to a random sample of 3,000 members selected from the nationwide register of the Japan Pediatric Society and received 850 responses (response rate,...

This study aims to validate the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) adapted Italian education sector. Teacher burnout is physical and emotional pain, due prolonged exposure school-related stress factors. Previous research has abundantly proven that preventive assessment of teachers’ risk level for may reduce adverse outcomes. In this regard, new tools, able bring together evidence from fifty years on...

Introduction In this research the Paris School (I.P.S.O.), by P. Marty, is chosen as theoretical and clinical basis of Psychosomatics. We work with degree mentalization (good, bad uncertain) -obtained through Marty’s Psychosomatic Classification-, a previous diagnosis prognosis 120 infertile women undergoing treatment at Assisted Reproduction Unit (ARU) Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in M...

AIM to examine certain characteristics of patients who suffer from psychosomatic disorders. METHODS We called data through medical report outpatient clinic of the Psychosomatic Division, Department of internal medicine, Cipto Mangunkusumo Central General Hospital/Faculty of Medicine of the University of Indonesia (FKUI/RSUPN-CM), Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1996. The data was processed manually an...

Psychosomatic means psyche (mind) and soma (body) A psychosomatic disorder is a disease which involves both mind and body. Some physical diseases are thought to be particularly prone to be made worse by mental factors such as stress and anxiety. Your current mental state can affect how bad a physical disease is at any given time. Both mind and body are a single identity so the involvements of o...