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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-2-16
pubmed:abstractText
During the second half of the last century, biopsychosocial research in psychosomatic medicine largely ignored the brain. Neuroscience has started to make a comeback in psychosomatic medicine research and promises to advance the field in important ways. In this paper we briefly review select brain imaging research findings in psychosomatic medicine in four key areas: cardiovascular regulation, visceral pain in the context of functional gastrointestinal disorders, acute and chronic somatic pain and placebo. In each area, there is a growing literature that is beginning to define a network of brain areas that participate in the functions in question. Evidence to date suggests that cortical and subcortical areas that are involved in emotion and emotion regulation play an important role in each domain. Neuroscientific research is therefore validating findings from previous psychosomatic research and has the potential to extend knowledge by delineating the biological mechanisms that link mind and body more completely and with greater specificity. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this work for how research in psychosomatic medicine is conducted, the ways in which neuroscientific advances can lead to new clinical applications in psychosomatic contexts, the implications of this work for the field of medicine more generally, and the priorities for research in the next 5 to 10 years.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1534-7796
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
71
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
135-51
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Cardiovascular Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Cardiovascular System, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Diagnostic Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Gastrointestinal Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Gastrointestinal Tract, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Gyrus Cinguli, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Neurosciences, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Pain, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Placebo Effect, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Psychology, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Psychophysiology, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Psychosomatic Medicine, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Research Design, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Somatoform Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:19196806-Stress, Psychological
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part II: clinical applications and implications for research.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724-5002, USA. lane@email.arizona.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review