Intervention: Six 90 minute weekly sessions of individual cognitive behavioural therapy, specifically addressing hypochondriasis and including educational information, or usual care. To coordinate medical management with cognitive behavioural therapy, letters were sent to the participants’ practioners, advising them to be conservative in diagnosis and treatment, schedule regular appointments, m...

In the treatment of eating disorders, the cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is still considered the best approach but could present different limitations related to costs of behavioural procedures (such as exposure and desensitization) or difficulty of cognitive techniques (such as imagination of daily scenarios). The major aim of this contribution is the description of a new Virtual Reality-e...

Meta analysis studies show important effects of cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy for OCD, but further knowledge about resource saving formats such as group therapy is needed and there are only few relevant studies available. We developed a manual for cognitive-behavioural group treatment of patients with OCD. Twenty four patients from a clinical population participated in this naturali...

The article is a narrative review of the theoretical standing and empirical evidence for the cognitive behavioural model of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) in general and for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in particular. A literature search of Medline and Psychinfo from 1966 to the present day was conducted using MUS and related terms as search terms. All...

At present there is no curative treatment for dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD), nor any therapeutic approach to prevent the conversion of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. In the past years, extensive research has increased our knowledge of the aetiology of AD, other dementing disorders and predementia syndromes, and several hypotheses have emerged from the epidemiological resea...