A Method for the Investigation of Somatic Response Mechanisms in Psychoneurosis

Malmo, Robert B.; Shagass, Charles; Davis, John F.

doi:10.1126/science.112.2908.325

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“…EMG levels in anxious patients tend to be higher than in controls [146,147], The return to baseline levels after experimental stress is slower in anxious patients than in normal controls [146].…”

Section: Striated Muscle Contractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Muscle tension is higher in parts of the body that are aching or painful compared to other parts of the body [150], Patients with headaches or neck pain develop greater EMG activity during experimental pain inflicted on the forearm than other pa tients [151]. Some patients with low backache have elevated EMG levels in paravertebral muscles [152], particularly when emotionally stressed [146,153], Treatments. There is consistent evidence that muscle contraction headaches are re lieved by relaxation training, biofeedback, an tidepressant drugs and analgesics [154,155], These treatments are likely to be effective in other types of muscle contraction pain as well [156],…”

Section: Striated Muscle Contractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychosomatic Syndromes, Somatization and Somatoform Disorders

Kellner¹

1994

Psychother Psychosom

111

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A psychosomatic syndrome is defined as a syndrome in which psychological processes play a substantial role in the etiology of the illness in some of the patients. The main conclusions on the extent of the biological and psychosocial contributions to several psychosomatic syndromes are presented and the relationship of these syndromes to somatization and somatoform disorders is discussed. The syndromes summarized include fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, motility disorders of the esophagus, nonulcer dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, urethral syndrome, behaviors causing disturbances of physiology, and some defined pain syndromes. The findings suggest that the extent of the biological and psychosocial contributions vary among these syndromes as well as among individuals with the same syndrome. In some syndromes the extent and nature of the biological contribution has not been established with certainty. There is evidence to suggest that many of the phenomena of the somatoform disorders are caused by clustering of psychosomatic syndromes or their incomplete or atypical manifestations and a low sensation threshold. The results of the controlled studies of various methods of psychotherapy and drug treatments of the psychosomatic syndromes are listed; these studies have practical implications because the adoption of these methods is likely to enhance the efficacy of the treatment of somatoform disorders.

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Section: Striated Muscle Contractionmentioning

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Section: Striated Muscle Contractionmentioning

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Psychosomatic Syndromes, Somatization and Somatoform Disorders

Kellner¹

1994

Psychother Psychosom

111

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“…3. , According to the above procedure, the data from each subject furnished four response values for the control period and four response values for the postdrug test period (i. e., one response value for each tone presentation).…”

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1958

AMA Arch NeurPsych

118

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Parallax, the shadows and textures of the foreground, relative positions of nearby ob¬ jects, and many other such cues make distance judgments possible, but such stimuli are somewhat peripheral to the center of attention in the size-judgment experiments. After unsuccessfully attempting to relate our findings to local ophthalmic changes, we came to consider a decreased attentiveness to peripheral-distance cues as the most likely cause of the observed size-judgment change. Downloaded From: http://archneurpsyc.jamanetwork.com/ by a Oakland University User on 06/04/2015

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“…Both a generalized homeostatic theory of psychophysiological disorders (Christie, 1975;Stoyva, 1976Stoyva, , 1977 and a more complex conceptualization of psychophysiological disorders, such as the three-stage theory proposed by Sternbach (1966), include in their definition of psychophysiologic abnormality an impaired recovery process. This "slowness of recovery" has been documented, albeit inconsistently, in many disorders such as hypertension (Brod, Fencl, Hejl, & Jirka, 1959;White & Gilda, 1937), anxiety (Malmo, Shagass, & Davis, 1950), migraine headache (Arena, Blanchard, Andrasik, Applebaum, & Myers, in press;Anderson, Stoyva, & Vaughn, 1982), and Raynaud's disease (Charles & Cormick, 1970).…”

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Inter- and intrasession reliability of psychophysiological poststress adaptation periods

Arena

1984

Journal of Behavioral Assessment

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A Method for the Investigation of Somatic Response Mechanisms in Psychoneurosis

Cited by 42 publications

References 7 publications

Psychosomatic Syndromes, Somatization and Somatoform Disorders

Psychosomatic Syndromes, Somatization and Somatoform Disorders

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Inter- and intrasession reliability of psychophysiological poststress adaptation periods

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