Life events and gastrointestinal symptoms.

GutPublished 1 February 1986Open access

C. Bass

DOI10.1136/gut.27.2.123

Source URL

Citations23

SJR quartileQ1

SJR score8.87

SNIP4.79

View PDF

TL;DR

Revue des relations entre les stress psychologiques and les troubles d'ordre digestif, envers les facteurs biologiques, psychologique, sociologiques.

Keywords

PsychologyMedicineHealth Professions

The LancetPSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND FATAL HEART ATTACK: THE ATHENS (1981) EARTHQUAKE NATURAL EXPERIMENT

541 Citations1983Dimitrios Trichopoulos, X Zavitsanos +3 more

There was an excess of deaths from cardiac and external causes on the days after the major earthquake in Athens in 1981, but no excess of died from cancer and little, if any, excess of death from other causes.

Psychosomatic MedicineEMOTIONS AND GASTRODUODENAL FUNCTION

133 Citations1942Béla Mittelmann, Harold G. Wolff +1 more

It is suggested that the increased secretion, increased motility and disturbed circulation, mucosal erosions and ulcerations are phases of the same process differing only in the amount of tissue destruction in the stomach and duodenum.

Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchLife events, psychiatric disorder and physical illness

111 Citations1981George W. Brown

It is argued that the latter are of limited relevance to the study of life events as such; here it is more important to develop instruments capable of accuracy, sensitivity and that have some control over possible bias in reporting and rating.

The British Journal of PsychiatryLife Events, Psychiatric Disturbance and Physical Illness

107 Citations1980Elaine Murphy, George W. Brown

The link between severe events and the onset of organic illness was not a direct causal association but mediated by an intervening psychiatric disturbance of an affective kind, all occurring within a six month period.

American Journal of PsychiatryThe sequelae and nonsequelae of conjugal bereavement

105 Citations1979P J Clayton

The author reviews prospective studies of bereavement, which show that widows and widowers suffer from significant depressive symptoms in the first year, and that there is probably an increase in mortality only among older widowers in thefirst year.

The LancetLIFE EVENTS AND APPENDICECTOMY

99 Citations1981Francis Creed

It was demonstrated that the number of people experiencing threatening events fell to the expected level postoperatively and that depression was associated with continued abdominal pain, which may be relevant to the understanding of the irritable-bowel syndrome.

Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchInvited review life events and physical illness

73 Citations1985Francis Creed

There has been insufficient sound research for firm conclusions to be drawn but prospective studies make it clear that assessment of life events will lead to a more complete understanding of how psychosocial factors interact with bodily functioning.

American Journal of PsychiatryEmotional causes of sudden death

47 Citations1977Joel E. Dimsdale

The author reviews concepts important to understanding the emotional causes of sudden death, which occurs in the psychological setting of hopelessness, powerlessness, and intense emotions, which indicate that sudden death as a response to stress can occur only when certain factors are present simultaneously.

BMJPsychosocial stress in pregnancy.

5 Citations1979Francis Creed

The findings of the MRC study, which differ in several respects from those of the US study, certainly deserve more careful consideration than this premature and sweeping dismissal from the United States accorded them.

View PDF

PubMedLife's happenings and organic disease.

3 Citations1985Jennifer Connolly

There is a widespread belief among people and their doctors that what happens in life contributes to the cause of not only altered mood states but also organic lesional disease.