David Spiegel

TL;DR: This study examined whether relaxation and analgesia facilitated with hypnosis could reduce distress and procedure time for children who undergo Voiding cystourethrography and indicated significant benefits for the hypnosis group compared with the routine care group.

TL;DR: This review combines perspectives from psychiatry, psychology and neurology to identify and discuss key problems with the current diagnostic DSM-IV criteria for conversion disorder and to make the following proposals for DSM-5.

TL;DR: Relationships among depression, stress, and immune function in the context of advanced breast cancer is explored, indicating that women reporting more depressive symptoms showed suppressed immunity as measured by lower average induration size.

TL;DR: Using cumulative disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) curves generated from age-specific population-based data, a consensus opinion of a group of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and public health experts was established regarding the methodology for estimating the burden of surgical conditions and the unmet need for surgical care.

TL;DR: A dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), defined by the presence of depersonalization or derealization in addition to other PTSD symptoms, is being recommended, based upon new epidemiological and neuroimaging evidence linking it to an early life history of adversity and a combination of frontal activation and limbic inhibition.