Moria Golan, PhD, Amit Yaroslavski, MD and Daniel Stein, MD Shahaf, Community Services for Eating Disorders, Naan School of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Department of Nutrition, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Ch...

My tlide, taken from the King James Bible, became rather more apt when I tumed to the New Enlish Bible of 1970. Here the word "thought" is more precisely translated as "anxious thought"; and it is the rela¢i between anxious thought and stature, between emotional and bodily processes, that I am discussing. This lecture commemorates Charles West, to whom children's hospitals and children owe so m...

INTRODUCTION Overactive bladder (OAB) is generally characterized by urinary urgency with or without incontinence and increased frequency of voiding and nocturia. Although animal studies have demonstrated the relationship between defective serotonergic neurotransmission and OAB, its etiology is still unclarified. Temperament profiles are hypothesized to be related with serotonergic activity and ...

Introduction Psychosomatic symptoms are an important problem that is frequently presented in medical consultations. These often associated with psychiatric disorders, especially depressive and anxiety disorders. Objectives To study the association between disorders psychosomatic a sample of patients referred for pathology functional origin. Methods We made descriptive retrospective through use ...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/pps George Engel, the father of modern psychosomatic medicine, died just before the turn of the century. We are now in the position of stating that he has been one of the century’s most influential physicians at the interface between medical and behavioral sciences. He was universally known for the biopsychosocial model [1]. However, the beginning o...

The Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ACPM) was founded as the Asian Chapter of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM-AC) in Tokyo on April 12, 1982.The first president was Hitoshi ISHIKAWA (Japan), the vice-presidents were Mahalingam MAHADEVAN (Malaysia) and Burton G.BURTON-BRADLEY (Papua- New Guinea), and the general secretary was Sueharu TSUTSUI (Japan).Five years ...