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Computerized cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) programs can provide a useful self-help approach to the treatment of psychological problems. Previous studies have shown that CCBT has moderate effects on depres...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:23
Published on: 19 September 2017
Case report
Patients with anorexia nervosa in the acute phase have physical complications, such as infectious disease. Although hemophagocytic syndrome due to infection is a rare complication in anorexia nervosa, early id...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:24
Published on: 5 September 2017
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Self-help cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a useful approach for the treatment of psychological problems. Recent research on the effectiveness of self-help internet-based CBT (ICBT) indicates that the parad...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:25
Published on: 1 September 2017
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We examined how purging behaviors relate to subjective sleep quality and sleep patterns and how symptoms of disordered eating behaviors relate to global sleep quality in female patients with anorexia nervosa (...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:22
Published on: 16 August 2017
Case report
Atypical odontalgia (AO) is a disease characterized by continuous pain affecting the teeth or tooth sockets after extraction in the absence of any identifiable cause on clinical or radiographic examination. An...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:21
Published on: 3 August 2017
Research
Infertility has been shown to have considerable psychological effects on the well-being of couples, especially women. Religion has been found as a resource used by infertile women to cope with their distress. ...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:20
Published on: 12 July 2017
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Administration of valproic acid (VPA) is complicated with approximately 0.9% of patients developing hyperammonemia, but the pathogenesis of this adverse effect remains to be clarified. The aim of the present s...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:19
Published on: 5 July 2017
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The aim of this study was to clarify the changes in biological measures during autogenic training (AT) sessions and the relationship between these biological measures and the changes in physical and psychologi...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:17
Published on: 28 June 2017
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Somatization is produced due to the summation of psychological factors, irrespective of the presence or absence of physical factors. A group of diseases with severe pain and other disorders exhibit so-called M...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:16
Published on: 28 June 2017
Review
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been applied for various problems, including psychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety, and for physical symptoms such as pain. It has also been applied for den...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:18
Published on: 13 June 2017
Research
Weight regain is a common problem following weight loss intervention, with most people who seek treatment for obesity able to lose weight, but few able to sustain the changes in behavior required to prevent su...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:14
Published on: 6 June 2017
Research
Chronic pain enhances sensory sensitivity and induces the biased development of psychological traits such as depression and pain catastrophizing, leading to the formation of heterogeneous conditions. Fluctuati...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:13
Published on: 12 May 2017
Review
Psycho-oncology in Korea was introduced among the circle of consultation-liaison psychiatrists, in the 1990s. For almost 25 years, the field has been developing at a steady pace as the psychosocial needs of pa...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:12
Published on: 1 May 2017
Case report
Cancer is commonly perceived as life-threatening and universally stressful; however, brief psychotic disorder, which occurs in response to extremely stressful events, has not been reported.
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:10
Published on: 11 April 2017
Review
The American Psychosomatic Society is one of the oldest and probably the most influential scientific society in psychosomatic/biopsychosocial research worldwide. The current article delineates the historical d...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:11
Published on: 8 April 2017
Research
Although the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire version 6.0 (EDE-Q) is one of the most widely used questionnaires for eating disorders in Western countries, no research has addressed the psychometric pr...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:9
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research
Global assessment allows patients to assess improvement in multiple irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms. However, it was deemed important to assess “clinically meaningful improvements, focusing on the pati...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:8
Published on: 16 March 2017
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Previous studies have indicated that ramosetron, a 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 receptor antagonist, achieves global improvement in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms in male patients with IBS with diarrhea (IBS...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:7
Published on: 11 March 2017
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Our previous randomized controlled trial demonstrated that isometric yoga in a sitting position reduces fatigue in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). However, some patie...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:5
Published on: 3 March 2017
Research
Job crafting, an employee-initiated job design/redesign, has become important for employees’ well-being. However, most studies on the relationship between job crafting and employees’ well-being have been condu...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:6
Published on: 10 February 2017
Research
Evaluating health needs includes measures of the impact of state of health on the quality of life. This entails evaluating the psychosocial aspects of health. To achieve this, several tools for measuring the q...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:2
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research
Obstacles to pain management include patients’ reluctance to inform healthcare provides about their pain, and differences in the pain management aims between patients and healthcare providers. The objective of...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:4
Published on: 1 February 2017
Review
Within national and international societies of psychosomatic medicine the idea has emerged of bringing together and coordinating psychosomatic, behavioural, psychological and medical actions with common intere...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:3
Published on: 26 January 2017
Review
In this article, we describe the history and current state of psychosomatic medicine (PSM) in Japan and propose measures that could be considered based on our view of the future prospects of PSM in Japan. The ...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2017 11:1
Published on: 16 January 2017
Editorial
BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2016 10:34
Published on: 12 December 2016
