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Where psychology meets physiology: chronic stress and premature mortality—the Central-Eastern European health paradox

Biosocial theory of psychopathology: a three by three factor model.

Depression in the mentally retarded: toward a conceptual analysis of diagnosis.

This study examined the efficacy of behavioral strategies in alleviating pain and anxiety associated with severe orthopedic trauma. Sixty-four patients with multiple fractures were divided into four groups: (1) control, (2) attention only, (3) EMG biofeedback-assisted relaxation, and (4) audiotaped relaxation training. All were measured over at least six sessions, or as long as hospital stay permitted. Significant between group differences were found on the following: systolic blood pressure, pheripheral temperature, subjective units of discomfort, state anxiety, with a trend for use of sleep medications. No differences were found on other vital signs, EMG recordings, or other medications. EMG-biofeedback relaxation and relaxation training were relatively equivalent for all measures, and little or no change was observed for those patients who received attention only or served as controls.

Behavioral strategies for the reduction of pain and anxiety associated with orthopedic trauma.

Posttraumtic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric syndrome that has been described in a wide variety of conditions including concentration camps, war, natural disasters [1, 2], and assault [3-7]. The syndrome has been reported in a large number of clinical populations, including Jewish survivors of the Holocaust [8-10], Chilean victims of torture [11], and Cambodian refugees [12-16], although, in great measure, the literature on PTSD has centered around studies of war veterans. Following the extraordinary trauma that has been produced by all of these situations, a very uniform symptom complex has been noted, including insomnia, startle reactions, nightmares, numbing of emotions, survival guilt, memory impairment, and avoidance of any conditions that may arouse recollection of the traumatic event.

Balcar K

Papers

Psychophysiology of anxiety