Volume 39 · Number 12
DECEMBER 2009

Brain-Body Interactions

The brain affects the body, and likewise, the body affects the brain. These brain-body reactions have sweeping effects on mental health. Reactions, such as fear, and incidents, such as child abuse and neglect, can cause a patient to suffer for many years, and also place a burden on the healthcare system.

 

Shifting the Paradigm in Treatment-Resistant Depression: Assessing Barriers to Responses and Applying Adjunctive Therapies for Better Patient Results

Brain-Body Interactions — Complex Systems: How Can We Intervene?
Jan Fawcett, MD

Brain–body Interactions: How Mental Processes and Psychiatric Illness Affect Medical Outcomes
Gregory A. Bayer, PhD; Rhonda Robinson Beale, MD; George I. Viamontes, MD, PhD

Disinhibition, Self-Neglect, and Cognitive Deficits: Clarifying the Diagnosis
Alexander Z. Harris, MD; Dimitry Francois, MD; Nahla Mahgoub, MD

CE article Brain-Body Interactions: The Physiological Impact of Mental Processes — The Neurobiology of the Stress Response
George I. Viamontes, MD, PhD; Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD

CE article The Sickness Response: An Adaptive Brain–Body Reaction to Medical Illness
Claudia Troesch Viamontes, MD, PhD

CE article Physical and Medical Dimensions of Borderline Personality Disorder and the Effect of Treatment
Glen O. Gabbard, MD; Valdesha L. Ball, MD

CE article The Medical Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
Karen M. Palaszynski, MD, PhD; Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD

The Effect of Psychiatric Illness on Medical Outcomes
Ronald Beach, MD; Gregory A. Bayer, PhD; Brett Hart, PhD

 

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