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Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer
David Spiegel,David Spiegel,HelenaC. Kraemer,HelenaC. Kraemer,JoanR. Bloom,JoanR. Bloom,Ellen Gottheil,Ellen Gottheil +7 more
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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.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1989-10-14. It has received 2248 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Randomized controlled trial & Metastatic breast cancer.read more
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The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review.
TL;DR: The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them as mentioned in this paper, and characterizes emotion in terms of response tendencies.
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Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators
TL;DR: The long-term effect of the physiologic response to stress is reviewed, which I refer to as allostatic load, which is the ability to achieve stability through change.
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Social relationships and health.
TL;DR: The author argues that all 3 variables that assess different aspects of social relationships are associated with health outcomes, that these variables each influence health through different mechanisms, and that associations between these variables and health are not spurious findings attributable to the authors' personalities.
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Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology.
TL;DR: Reappraisal decreased disgust experience, whereas suppression increased sympathetic activation, suggesting that these 2 emotion regulatory processes may have different adaptive consequences.
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Stress and the Individual: Mechanisms Leading to Disease
Bruce S. McEwen,Eliot Stellar +1 more
TL;DR: A new formulation of the relationship between stress and the processes leading to disease is presented, emphasizing the cascading relationships between environmental factors and genetic predispositions that lead to large individual differences in susceptibility to stress and, in some cases, to disease.
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TL;DR: Objective evidence is provided that a supportive group intervention for patients with metastatic cancer results in psychological benefit and mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of this group intervention are explored.