A taxonomy of threat and soothing influences in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and central sensitivity syndromes.

Background: An imbalance in affect regulation, reflected by a hyperactive threat system and hypoactive soothing system, may impact physical symptoms in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) and central sensitivity syndromes (CSS), including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome. This study aimed to identify and structure comprehensive overviews of threat and soothing influences that may worsen or alleviate physical symptoms in people with RMD or CSS.

Method: A concept mapping procedure was used.

Individual treatment goals and factors influencing goal attainment in patients with somatic symptom disorder from the perspective of clinicians: A concept mapping study.

Objective: Overviews of treatment goals and influencing factors may support shared decision making and optimize customized treatment to the patient with somatic symptom disorder (SSD). The aim of this study was to identify and structure comprehensive sets of treatment goals and factors influencing goal attainment in patients with SSD from the perspective of clinicians.

Methods: Using a concept mapping procedure, clinicians participated in interviews (N = 17) and card sorting tasks comprising 55 treatment goals and 55 factors influencing goal attainment (N = 38).

Imagine food, weight and shape: mental imagery in women with eating disorders compared with healthy controls.

Background: Research into mental disorders has found mental imagery to be a maintaining factor for psychological distress. However, studies investigating mental imagery in eating disorders are scarce.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to compare spontaneous mental imagery related to eating, weight and/or appearance and intrusive prospective imagery in women with an eating disorder with female healthy controls.

The association of changes in repetitive negative thinking with changes in depression and anxiety.

Background: Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a common feature of different mental disorders in the affective spectrum. Most measures of RNT are disorder-specific and measure e.g.

Minimizing nocebo effects by conditioning with verbal suggestion: A randomized clinical trial in healthy humans.

Nocebo effects, i.e., adverse treatment effects which are induced by patients' expectations, are known to contribute to the experience of physical symptoms such as pain and itch.