A5056594972- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
- Health and Medical Studies
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Klinikum rechts der Isar
2013-2024
Klinik Barmelweid
2018-2024
Technical University of Munich
2011-2021
International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2020
Vienna University of Economics and Business
2020
University of Vienna
2020
Springer Nature (Germany)
2020
German Centre for Cardiovascular Research
2018-2019
Universität Innsbruck
2018
Background Multisomatoform disorder is characterised by severe and disabling bodily symptoms, pain one of the most common impairing these. Furthermore, these symptoms cannot be explained an underlying organic disorder. Patients with multisomatoform are commonly found at all levels healthcare typically difficult to treat for physicians as well mental health specialists. Aims To test whether brief psychodynamic interpersonal therapy (PIT) effectively improves physical quality life in patients...
4-10% of the general population and 20% primary care patients have what are called "non-specific, functional, somatoform bodily complaints." These often take a chronic course, markedly impair sufferers' quality life, give rise to high costs. They can be made worse by inappropriate behavior on physician's part.The new S3 guideline was formulated representatives 29 medical psychological specialty societies one patient representative. analyzed more than 4000 publications retrieved systematic...
Depression predicts adverse prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), but previous treatment trials yielded mixed results. We tested the hypothesis that stepwise psychotherapy improves depressive symptoms more than simple information.In a multicenter trial, we randomized 570 CAD scoring higher 7 on Hospital Anxiety and Scale-depression subscale to usual care plus either one information session (UC-IS) or (UC-PT). UC-PT received three individual sessions. Those still depressed...
Objectives: Living alone in later life is an important risk factor of loneliness for elderly people unless they have resources to compensate that. The aim this investigation was identify these resources.Method: Data were drawn from the population-based KORA-Age-study (KOoperativen Gesundheitsforschung der Region Augsburg) conducted Augsburg, Germany 2008/2009 with 1079 men and women (64–94 years). Loneliness measured by short version UCLA-Loneliness-Scale a face-to-face interview. Multiple...
Painful stimuli are of utmost behavioral relevance and thereby affect attentional resources. In health, variable effects pain on attention have been observed, indicating alerting as well distracting pain. the human brain, these closely related to modulations neuronal gamma oscillations. As hypervigilance an abnormal increase external has implicated in chronic states, we assumed both performance pain-induced oscillations be altered patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). We recorded...
<i>Background:</i> Asthma is a frequently disabling and almost invariably distressing disease that has high overall prevalence. Although relaxation techniques hypnotherapeutic interventions have proven their effectiveness in numerous trials, therapies are still not recommended treatment guidelines due to lack of methodological quality many the trials. Therefore, this study aims investigate efficacy brief technique functional (FR) guided imagery (GI) adult asthmatics randomized...
Objectives: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a frequently disabling and almost invariably distressing disease with high overall prevalence. Numerous trials identified the importance of psychogenic emotional etiological factors, this obvious in clinical practice. Although relaxation techniques are recommended, there still lack evidence for their efficacy management IBS. This study therefore aims to determine functional (FR) Subjects: The subjects were 80 patients Interventions: Participants...
Type D personality, as with formal mental disorders, is linked to increased mortality in coronary heart disease (CHD). Our aim was determine the prevalence of disorders among depressed CHD patients and without personality. Depressive symptoms (HADS, HAM-D), personality (DS-14) based on DSM-IV (SCID I II) were assessed. Results calculated by Kruskal-Wallis tests, Fisher's exact tests logistic regression analyses. 570 included (age 59.2 ± 9.5 years; male 78.9%, HADS-D depression 10.4 2.5;...
Introduction: Depression predicts mortality in patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure. However, its effect on patient outcome the presence of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) has not been investigated. Methods: A total 236 ICD (76 females, 58.6 ± 14.0 years) were screened for depressive symptoms using Hospital Anxiety Scale (HADS). The measure was all‐cause prognostic depression evaluated Cox proportional hazards regression analysis. Results: Fifty (21%)...
Objective Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension pain are known to be disturbed in patients with chronic disorder. The aim this functional magnetic resonance imaging study was assess neurofunctional behavioral measures underlying ability construct pain-related meaning a painful situation by comparing 21 clinically psychometrically well-characterized persistent non-nociceptive somatoform 19 healthy controls. Methods task involved viewing pictures depicting human hands...
HIV infection has evolved from a fatal to treatable condition, leading an increase in the rate of elderly People Living with (PLWH). However, little is known about psychosocial burden PLWH. Thus, aim this longitudinal multi-center cohort study was investigate whether PLWH experience more anxiety and depression reduced health related quality life (HRQOL) compared patients other chronic conditions. were diabetes (DM) minor conditions (MHC), e.g. hypertension or allergic All over 50 years old....