Showing papers in "Psychosomatics in 1981"

TL;DR: The frequency with which antidepressants can significantly alleviate pain associated with depression highlights the importance of the link between pain and depression, which may be partially explained by the close relationship of enkephalins and biogenic amines.

TL;DR: Chronic pain of obscure origin, a widespread problem, represents a distinct psychopathologic condition for which the authors propose the term “pain-prone Disorder,” and treatment with antidepressants is often effective.

TL;DR: The cumulative evidence of an increased suicide risk among epileptic persons emphasizes the necessity for physicians to be alert to possible suicidal tendencies in their epileptic patients.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the evidence for specific personality and ego-defensive characteristics of cancer patients and found that the stress of loss and depression when combined with these personality factors seems to increase vulnerability to clinical cancer.

TL;DR: Post-Vietnam syndrome is characterized by intrusive, combat-related thoughts and nightmares, numbed responsiveness, and several specific symptoms such as drug dependence, depression, anxiety, and rage.

TL;DR: A stress response syndrome prevalent among physicians in training, the house officer stress syndrome, is described, usually in a benign form, but may also suffer from major depression, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse.

TL;DR: Acne is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the pilosebaceous glands that usually appears at adolescence, a period of uncertainty in life, when a person is making the mental and physical transition from childhood to adulthood.

TL;DR: The majority of patients evidenced concealed depression; overt depression was the second most predominant reaction; with progression of the disease, overt depression tended to increase, while denial seemed to decrease.

TL;DR: Continuing medical care in the form of later corrective surgery, regular hearing examinations, speech therapy, and psychotherapy (for the patient and family members) can help relieve the adolescent's misery.

TL;DR: Patients who had experienced a psychotic episode were as well-adjusted on follow-up as those with no history of psychosis, suggesting that residual psychiatric effects are not caused by the “lupus psychosis”.

TL;DR: Electrolyte imbalance may cause neuropsychiatric manifestations that closely mimic functional disorders and, in most instances, correction of the underlying electrolyte imbalance will alleviate the psychiatric symptoms.

TL;DR: No significant difference in pain response to the episiotomy was found among the five ethnic groups–Black, Italian, Jewish, Irish, and Anglo-Saxon Protestant patients.

TL;DR: My experience has convinced me that nausea and vomiting are not always direct side-effects of chemotherapy, but rather may be surfacing manifestations of underlying psychological readjustment problems associated with life-threatening illness.

TL;DR: Recommendations for assessment and management of assault on the general hospital ward and in the emergency room are given, and violence directed toward physicians is discussed.

TL;DR: The Type A behavior pattern, a risk factor for coronary heart disease, is described in terms of the expanded cognitive social learning model that takes into account the interdependent influences of behavioral, environmental, cognitive, and physiologic components.

TL;DR: The author reviews the differential diagnosis of organic conditions that can present with prominent symptoms of anxiety and discusses the unique characteristics of various cardiopulmonary, endocrine, neurologic, and other disorders.

TL;DR: The hyponatremeic patients were generally more severely ill than their nonhyponatremic counterparts, and so their clouded mental state cannot be attributed with certainty to their hypon atremia.

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that some significant gains are achieved when psychotherapy is added to routine medical regi mens, and eight studies showed greater physiologic improvement for patients receiving psychotherapy than for those receiving medical treatment alone.

TL;DR: Examining various areas of difficulty and proposing coping strategies can help relieve the strains inherent in consultation-liaison psychiatry finds peer-group support, effective division leadership, routine assessment of goals, and flexible approaches can help ease the strain.