As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as
good at treating the person. The focus of our attention has been on the specific physical …

Psychological stress elicits measurable changes in sympathetic-parasympathetic balance
and the tone of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which might negatively affect the …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through …

Objective: The goal of this article is to provide insight into how recent findings from affective
science may be translated into the health arena. Methods: We first review definitional issues …

Specific negative emotions have been related to adverse cardiac events, but a general
propensity to psychological distress may also affect cardiovascular outcomes. In this …

Background Since 1995, the association of type D personality and mortality in patients with
cardiovascular diseases has been increasingly investigated. Purpose The aim of this meta …

More than six decades of empirical research have shown that psychosocial risk factors like
low socio-economic status, lack of social support, stress at work and family life, depression …

In the late 1980s The Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) was established by recruiting young
twins and multiples at birth and by approaching adolescent and young adult twins through …

There are two broad themes in psychosomatic medicine research that relate emotions to
physical disease outcomes. Theme 1 holds that self-reported negative affect has deleterious …

OBJECTIVE: To (a) investigate the prevalence of type-D personality (the conjoint effects of
negative affectivity and social inhibition) in a healthy British and Irish population;(b) to test …