H Ursin

..It is an essential element of CATS that only when coping is defined as positive outcome expectancy does the concept predict relations to health and disease...

..Finally, the PNE positions outlined in 1968 by Mason is revisited. The 30 years of PNE research that followed confirm and expand his conclusions...

..One possible alternative to old dynamic concepts is the development of a cognitive arousal theory of stress...

..There is a striking comorbidity for all these conditions. This may be explained by psychobiological sensitization within neural loops, maintained by sustained activation, which has been suggested as a mechanism for these conditions...

..The prevalence of these complaints is high, and should be considered before conclusions are reached about new diseases and new attributions of environmental hazards...

..This is the most frequent and most expensive condition for sickness compensation and disability. The comorbidity of other complaints, however, will also be taken into account...

..The PE group showed improved general health, physical fitness and muscle pain, while the SMT group showed improved stress management. The IHP group showed the strongest effects, affecting most goals set for treatment...

..A prospective study of patients treated with a light mobilization program for long-term low back pain...

..Our common subjective health complaints, therefore, are not specific for industrialized societies...

..The combination of cognitive psychology and neurophysiology offers a model for somatic pathology, and, perhaps more important, also for the understanding of subjective complaints and illness...

..The main symptoms are excessive sleepiness and insomnia temporally associated with the working schedule. The aim of the present study was to examine SWD among shift workers in the North Sea...

..Studies using self-report rating scales suggest a considerable overlap regarding symptom complaints in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and functional dyspepsia (FD), while clinical assessments point to important psychological differences...

..The prolactin response to buspirone has been suggested to be mediated through dopamine (DA) antagonistic effects...

..The diurnal rhythm of saliva cortisol and its association to adaptation, performance and health were examined in personnel over-wintering at two British Antarctic stations...

..The findings suggest that interpersonal characteristics need to be considered in the selection of submariners and personnel for other military settings in which units are exposed to prolonged stress and isolation...

..There are many roots, many related issues, and many scientists involved. There is no way to produce a complete story. However, one aspect is beyond discussion, the story started in the Neurophysiology laboratory in Oslo...

..The important dimensions for health are positive expectancies of outcome (coping), control, and safety, for all individuals in all species...

..The fundamental neurophysiological difference may also be the basis for the very complex cognitive and perceptual mechanisms involved in psychological defense mechanisms...

..We compared ICD-10 psychiatric disorders in female patients with fibromyalgia (n=45) or functional dyspepsia (n=18) with age-matched random sample controls (n=49)...

..CONCLUSION: The psychobiological mechanisms for this is suggested to be sensitization in neural loops maintained by sustained attention and arousal...

..Similar models have been presented for non-specific gastric and intestinal complaints, and for fatigue and depression. Rumination and perseveration of negative thoughts may maintain the activity in these loops...

..We review the current status of CATS in Behavioural Medicine by discussing its potential explanatory power in epidemiology, prevention and treatment of "subjective health complaints"...

..In the final hierarchical regression of the evening values, only decision authority and coffee were significantly related to cortisol levels in the evening...

..The second aim was to evaluate whether any SHC differences were attributable directly to the work environment or mediated by the individual perception of the environment (satisfactory or not)...

..The intensity of subjective health complaints forms a continuum, and there are no obvious cut-off point to indicate what are "normal" complaints and what is illness...

..This overall higher score on subjective complaints from all organ systems is in accordance with the hypothesis of an overall and general sensitization to the afferent inputs from their psychophysiological systems...

..Analysing and presenting data on different outcomes after sick-leave is challenging. The use of extended statistical methods supplies additional information and allows further exploitation of data...

..The Maasais, living under primitive conditions, close to nature, seems to have more SHC than Norwegians, living in a modern, highly developed and industrialized country...

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..Single interventions in chronic fatigue syndrome have shown only limited effectiveness, with few studies of comprehensive treatment programmes...

..A subgroup of 195 patients with chronic low back pain, being part of a larger study of other musculoskeletal patients, were included in a randomized controlled prospective clinical study...

..The potential advantage of including a psychological test battery in the selection process for service in the Antarctic was examined in 348 applicants for employment in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)...