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In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Dr. Giovanni A. Fava and collaborators describe research findings that may shed new light on unexplained and difficult to treat medical ...

The Canadian Psychiatric Association held its 53rd Annual Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from October 30 to November 2, 2003. A number of interesting topics were presented, including a review ...

Psychosomatic disorders are physical symptoms that mask emotional distress. The very nature of the physical presentation of the symptoms hides the distress at its root, so it is natural that those ...

Pain-processing regions are particularly affected by changes in brain volume. The good news is that these changes may be reversible. New research from University of Limerick in Ireland has revealed ...

The notion that psychological problems can manifest as physical disorders or symptoms predates the founding of modern scientific psychiatry in the late 1800s. Indeed, it is an idea as old as medicine ...