David Spiegel

TL;DR: The effect of psychosocial intervention on time of survival of 86 patients with metastatic breast cancer was studied prospectively and survival plots indicated that divergence in survival began at 20 months after entry, or 8 months after intervention ended.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated the number of major operations undertaken worldwide, described their distribution, and assessed the importance of surgical care in global public health policy, based on demographic, health, and economic data for 192 member states of the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: Patients with metastatic breast cancer whose diurnal cortisol rhythms were flattened or abnormal had earlier mortality, and suppression of NK cell count and NK function may be a mediator or a marker of more rapid disease progression.

TL;DR: A growing body of evidence suggests that biological mechanisms underlie a bidirectional link between mood disorders and many medical illnesses and there is evidence to suggest that mood disorders affect the course of medical illnesses.

TL;DR: The neural manifestations of the dissociative subtype in PTSD are compared to those underlying the reexperiencing/hyperaroused subtype and have important implications for treatment of PTSD, including the need to assess patients with PTSD for Dissociative symptoms and to incorporate the treatment of dissociatives symptoms into stage-oriented trauma treatment.