This randomized controlled trial investigated whether adding the psychodynamically based body-oriented psychotherapy "Functional Relaxation" (FR) to psychoeducation (PE) is more effective than PE alone to reduce stress and stress-associated complaints. Eighty-one participants with elevated stress-levels, ≥50 points on the global scale of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ), received either...

OBJECTIVE To compare adolescents with migraine, unexplained profound chronic fatigue of >6 months duration, and normal school controls on measures of anxiety, depression, somatization, functional disability, and illness attribution. METHODS Adolescents referred to Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center for behavioral treatment of migraine (n = 179) or evaluation of chronic fatigue (n...

OBJECTIVE medically unexplained symptoms are common and associated with mental illness in various contexts. Previous studies show that Latin American populations are prone to somatization. Given the reformulation of the International Classification of Diseases towards its 11th edition the peculiarities of the population from this region of the world shall be taken into consideration. The object...

The present study examined the relations among mindfulness, psychological inflexibility (PI), and various forms of psychological distress (e.g. somatization, depression, and anxiety) in Asian American undergraduate students (N=116). We hypothesized that mindfulness and PI would be uniquely and separately associated with various forms of psychological distress. Data was gathered from undergradua...

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BACKGROUND Patients with somatization disorder (SD) have altered neural activity in the brain regions of the default mode network (DMN). However, the regional alteration of the DMN in SD remains unknown. The present study was designed to investigate the regional alterations of the DMN in patients with SD at rest. METHODS Twenty-five first-episode, medication-naive patients with SD and 28 age-...

Objective. Children with epilepsy are at risk for less than optimum long-term outcomes. The type and severity of their epilepsy may contribute to educational, psychological, and social outcomes. The objective of this study was to determine the relation between somatization and adaptive skills based on seizure type that could impact on those outcomes. Methods. This study examined adaptive functi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between biological stress regulation and somatic complaints in young girls prior to the onset of clear psychopathology such as somatization disorder. METHODS Salivary cortisol, heart rate variability (HRV), and negative mood were assessed in 48 12-year-old girls in response to the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C). Parent and child report on t...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Psychological and behavioral traits may be important for the diagnosis and management of orofacial pain. PURPOSE This study compared the levels of depression and somatization in patients in single and multiple research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (RDC/TMD) diagnostic groups. MATERIAL AND METHODS The RDC/TMD was established to allow standardizatio...

introduction: limited data are available on the effectiveness of antidepressants in the treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. we evaluated the effectiveness of citalopram in the treatment of childhood functional abdominal pain (fap).   material and methods: children with fap (n=115, aged 6-18 years) received either citalopram 20 mg/day or placebo for 4 weeks. treatment...