Can Neuroimaging Help Us to Understand and Classify Somatoform Disorders? A Systematic and Critical Review

Michael Browning, Paul Fletcher and Michael Sharpe Debate about the nature of somatoform disorders and their current diagnostic classification has been stimulated by the anticipation of new editions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Statistical Classification … Continue reading

Brain activation during autobiographical relationship episode narratives: A core conflictual relationship theme approach

The authors combined the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify brain regions involved in recall of autobiographical relationship episodes, a key process in psychotherapy. Relationship narratives were obtained from healthy subjects and … Continue reading