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  1. Thalassemia is a blood disorder passed down through families (inherited) in which the body makes an abnormal form of hemoglobin. This disorder results in excessive destruction of red blood cells, and there is ...

    Authors: Kashif Aziz, Breera Sadaf and Sadia Kanwal
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:15
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  2. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorder with no curative treatment characterized by degeneration of motor neurons involving a progressive impairment of motor and respira...

    Authors: Francesco Pagnini, Paolo Banfi, Christian Lunetta, Gabriella Rossi, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Anna Marconi, Federica Fossati, Massimo Corbo and Enrico Molinari
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:14
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  3. Inflammatory arthritis impairs participation in societal roles. Role overload arises when the demands by a given role set exceed the resources; time and energy, to carry out the required tasks. The present stu...

    Authors: Sally Sabry Mustafa, Karl Julian Looper, Phyllis Zelkowitz, Margaret Purden and Murray Baron
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:13
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  4. The place where a patient experiences his/her first panic attack (FPA) may be related to their agoraphobia later in life. However, no investigations have been done into the clinical features according to the p...

    Authors: Naomi Hara, Yukika Nishimura, Chika Yokoyama, Ken Inoue, Atsushi Nishida, Hisashi Tanii, Motohiro Okada, Hisanobu Kaiya and Yuji Okazaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:12
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  5. The healing power of nature, vis medicatrix naturae, has traditionally been defined as an internal healing response designed to restore health. Almost a century ago, famed biologist Sir John Arthur Thomson provid...

    Authors: Alan C Logan and Eva M Selhub
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. The pathophysiology of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in adolescents is unknown, and the clinical course and prognosis is still questioned. Recent research indicates that abnormalities of autonomic cardiovascu...

    Authors: Dag Sulheim, Harald Hurum, Ingrid B Helland, Erik Thaulow and Vegard Bruun Wyller
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:10
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  7. Self-esteem is the "feeling of self-appreciation" and is an indispensable emotion for people to adapt to society and live their lives. For children, in particular, the environment in which they are raised cont...

    Authors: Mizuho Hosogi, Ayumi Okada, Chikako Fujii, Keizou Noguchi and Kumi Watanabe
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Advances in medical science have enabled many children with chronic diseases to survive to adulthood. The transition of adult patients with childhood-onset chronic diseases from pediatric to adult healthcare s...

    Authors: Yuko Ishizaki, Mitsue Maru, Hirohiko Higashino, Shoko Katsumoto, Kyoko Egawa, Yoshitoki Yanagimoto and Teruyo Nagahama
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:8
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  9. Psychosomatic and developmental behavioral medicine in pediatrics has been the subject of significant recent attention, with infants, school-age children, and adolescents frequently presenting with psychosomat...

    Authors: Shinichiro Nagamitsu, Yushiro Yamashita, Hidetaka Tanaka and Toyojiro Matsuishi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  12. Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychosomatic disease with somatic complications in the long-term course and a high mortality rate. Somatic comorbidities independent of anorexia nervosa have rarely been studied, ...

    Authors: Laurence Erdur, Bettina Kallenbach-Dermutz, Vicky Lehmann, Frank Zimmermann-Viehoff, Werner Köpp, Cora Weber and Hans-Christian Deter
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:4
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  13. The long-term success of life-style interventions in the treatment of obesity is limited. Although psychological factors have been suggested to modify therapeutic effects, specifically the implications of atta...

    Authors: Sybille Kiesewetter, Andrea Köpsel, Knut Mai, Andrea Stroux, Thomas Bobbert, Joachim Spranger, Werner Köpp, Hans-Christian Deter and Bettina Kallenbach-Dermutz
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:3
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  17. The prevention of serious physical complications in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients is important. The purpose of this study is to clarify which physical and social factors are related to the necessity for urgen...

    Authors: Keisuke Kawai, Sakino Yamashita, Takeharu Yamanaka, Motoharu Gondo, Chihiro Morita, Takehiro Nozaki, Shu Takakura, Tomokazu Hata, Yu Yamada, Sunao Matsubayashi, Masato Takii, Chiharu Kubo and Nobuyuki Sudo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:14
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  18. Sleep disturbance is a major health issue in Japan. This before-after study aimed to evaluate the immediate effects of forest walking in a community-based population with sleep complaints.

    Authors: Emi Morita, Makoto Imai, Masako Okawa, Tomiyasu Miyaura and Soichiro Miyazaki
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:13
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  20. The purpose of the current survey was to evaluate how teenagers and adults view teens with acne as compared to those with smooth, clear skin. We also surveyed teens and adults about their experiences with acne.

    Authors: Eva Ritvo, James Q Del Rosso, Mark A Stillman and Christopher La Riche
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:11
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  21. Both insufficient sleep and oversleeping have been reported as precipitating and aggravating factors of tension-type headache (TTH). However, previous studies relied on recalled self-reports, and the relations...

    Authors: Hiroe Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Gen Komaki and Akira Akabayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:10
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  22. We previously reported that depressive personality (the scores of hypochondriasis, depression and psychasthenia determined by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)) and daily hassles of Graves...

    Authors: Atsushi Fukao, Junta Takamatsu, Sumihisa Kubota, Akira Miyauchi and Toshiaki Hanafusa
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 23, a circulating 26-kDa peptide produced by osteogenic cells, is a novel phosphaturic factor. In our previous study, binge-eating/purging type anorexia nervosa (AN-BP) patients ...

    Authors: Makoto Otani, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Junko Moriya, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi and Akira Akabayashi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:7
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  25. Previous studies have shown the short-term or intermediate-term practice of yoga to be useful for ameliorating several mental disorders and psychosomatic disorders. However, little is known about the long-term...

    Authors: Kazufumi Yoshihara, Tetsuya Hiramoto, Nobuyuki Sudo and Chiharu Kubo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:6
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  26. Some women with depressive disorders experience severe premenstrual symptoms. However, there have been few studies in which premenstrual symptoms in women suffering from depressive disorders were assessed. In ...

    Authors: Yoshiko Miyaoka, Yoshie Akimoto, Kayoko Ueda, Yuri Ujiie, Machiko Kametani, Yoko Uchiide and Toshiko Kamo
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Not only has accidental injury been shown to account for a significant health burden on all populations, regardless of age, sex and geographic region, but patients with accidental injury frequently present wit...

    Authors: Yutaka Matsuoka
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) was developed to assess five levels of emotional awareness: bodily sensations, action tendencies, single emotions, blends of emotion, and combinations of blends. ...

    Authors: Tetsuya Igarashi, Gen Komaki, Richard D Lane, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Hiroki Nishimura, Hiromi Arakawa, Motoharu Gondo, Yuri Terasawa, Corbet V Sullivan and Motonari Maeda
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2011 5:2
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  31. Bronchial Asthma is a worldwide condition with particularly high prevalence in first world countries. The reasons are multifactorial but a neglected area is the psychological domain. It is well known that heav...

    Authors: Mark G Reed, Daniela Adolf, Katrin Werwick and Markus Herrmann
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:23
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  32. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disabling disease with unknown etiology. There is accumulating evidence of altered cardiovascular autonomic responses to different somatic stressors, in particular orthostat...

    Authors: Caroline Egge and Vegard Bruun Wyller
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:22
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  34. The increasing number of patients with chronic pain in Japan has become a major issue in terms of the patient's quality of life, medical costs, and related social problems. Pain is a multi-dimensional experien...

    Authors: Kazumi Yamamoto, Kenji Kanbara, Hiromi Mutsuura, Ikumi Ban, Yasuyuki Mizuno, Tetsuya Abe, Maki Yoshino, Aran Tajika, Yoshihide Nakai and Mikihiko Fukunaga
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Health communication consists of interpersonal or mass communication activities focused on improving the health of individuals and populations. Skills in understanding and applying information about health iss...

    Authors: Hirono Ishikawa and Takahiro Kiuchi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. With the globalization of occupational health psychology, more and more researchers are interested in applying employee well-being like work engagement (i.e., a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind...

    Authors: Akihito Shimazu, Wilmar B Schaufeli, Daisuke Miyanaka and Noboru Iwata
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:17
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. In the past decade, the changing labor market seems to have rejected the traditional standards employment and has begun to support a variety of non-standard forms of work in their place. The purpose of our stu...

    Authors: Mariko Inoue, Shinobu Tsurugano, Mariko Nishikitani and Eiji Yano
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Specific alternation of rhythm in temperature (SART)-stressed rats, an animal model of autonomic imbalance, exhibit low blood pressure and tachycardia during consciousness and under anesthesia. In addition, th...

    Authors: Yoshinori Funakami, Eiji Itoh, Taeko Hata, Tetsuyuki Wada and Seiji Ichida
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. More optimistic perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk are associated with substantively lower rates of cardiovascular death among men. It remains unknown whether this association represents causality (i.e...

    Authors: Robert Gramling, Kathi L Heffner, William MP Klein, Laura E Zajac, Mary Roberts and Charles B Eaton
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Since the 1980s, a high EEG abnormality rate has been reported for patients with panic disorder. However, how the EEG abnormalities of panic disorder patients are related to the clinical features and pathology...

    Authors: Karin Hayashi, Mariko Makino, Masahiro Hashizume, Koichi Nakano and Koji Tsuboi
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Whereas interest in incorporating mindfulness into interventions in medicine is growing, data on the relationships of mindfulness to stress and coping in management is still scarce. This report first presents ...

    Authors: Marion Trousselard, Dominique Steiler, Christian Raphel, Corinne Cian, Raffi Duymedjian, Damien Claverie and Frédéric Canini
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. This article introduces key concepts of work-related stress relevant to the clinical and research fields of psychosomatic medicine. Stress is a term used to describe the body's physiological and/or psychologic...

    Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2010 4:4
    Content type: Review Published on:
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