C Lahmann

..This study aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients who suffer from dizziness related to a psychiatric disorder and who are often severely impaired in their working and daily lives...

..Accordingly, personality traits deserve more attention at initial assessment and while planning treatment of obese patients...

..Recurrent heart problems and, especially, chest pain in the absence of somatic heart disease is a common finding, although challenging to treat...

..Therefore, this study aims to investigate the efficacy of the brief relaxation technique of functional relaxation (FR) and guided imagery (GI) in adult asthmatics in a randomized controlled trial...

..There is a high demand for efficient and time-saving diagnostic procedures. The paper deals with the development and first clinical testing of a computerized diagnostic system, facilitating adaptive testing...

..Although relaxation techniques are frequently recommended, there is still a lack of evidence for their efficacy in the management of IBS. This study therefore aims to determine the efficacy of functional relaxation (FR) in IBS...

..7 +/- 67.1, -49.5 +/- 93.4, and -28.4 +/- 93.9 compared with an increase of 27.7 +/- 43.2 in CI. Our study confirmed a positive and clinically relevant effect of FR and GI on total serum IgE levels...

..A specific psychodynamic approach furthermore focuses on improvement of affect differentiation and the interaction of somatoform pain and interpersonal relationships...

..Pharmacotherapy plays a minor role, but it can be useful mainly in cases of comorbid depression or anxiety...

..Dental anxiety is a significant cause of poor dental health. Because patients often prefer nonpharmacological interventions, the clinical effectiveness of clearly structured approaches is of particular interest...

..Patients with multisomatoform disorder are commonly found at all levels of healthcare and are typically difficult to treat for physicians as well as for mental health specialists...

..Of patients with such dizziness disorders, 80% are severely impaired by dizziness in their daily and working lives; nevertheless, they are often not diagnosed or treated adequately...

..Currently, SFD can only be diagnosed in the absence of sufficient organic symptom explanation, resulting in low criterion validity and delay of appropriate therapy...

..This preliminary study investigates the neural substrates of empathy-induced pain in multisomatoform pain patients "with vs. without" a history of sexual abuse during childhood...

..Descriptive data analysis revealed specific elevations of symptom frequencies for pseudoneurological symptoms and for symptoms associated with discomfort or dysfunction in sexual organs...

..Violations of body self-boundaries (e.g., sexual traumatizations during childhood) could alter the development of a coherent body image and promote symptoms of dissociation and somatization...

..e., polysymptomatic [multisomatoform/somatization disorders (MSD)] versus mono- or oligosymptomatic courses [pain disorder (PD), undifferentiated somatoform disorder (USD)]...

..Plastination is a new technique for odorless preservation of cadavers. Public exhibition of cadavers has raised controversy but attracted many people...

..Establishing and developing motivation prior to hospitalization might contribute to more efficient and cost-effective clinical treatment...

..The aim of this study was to examine whether bioenergetic exercises (BE) significantly influence the inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment results for Turkish immigrants with chronic somatoform disorders...

..To assess the perpetrators of sexual abuse in childhood, forms of simultaneous abuse, and characteristics of the families of origin, and the possible effects of abuse on health in adult life...

..05; in the 16th week, P<0.01]. These findings could contribute to improved treatment and rehabilitation of elderly patients, thereby prolonging the periods in their lives in which they can live independently...

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..However, no controlled studies on its efficacy have as yet been undertaken. The aim of this study was to examine this question in the case of women with depressive symptomology related to overstress...

..We compared both groups in a prospective, randomized, controlled study...

..The purpose of this study was to examine this question in the case of mothers with depressive symptoms...

..The aim of the current study was to test the influence of topiramate on behavior, body weight, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in bulimic patients...

..50 % and with recommendation for an inpatient treatment amounted to less than 20 %...