About this Research Topic
As our understanding of Psychosomatics continues to grow, so too do the number of key research questions that need answering. Frontiers in Psychiatry are pleased to present this Research Topic to tackle some of these key questions, which pose a key challenge in the field of Psychosomatics.
The Specialty Chief Editor, Professor Stephan Zipfel, would like to invite critical, ambitious and courageous contributions that can provide new insights and stimulate constructive debate around the following questions:
- Do mental health problems cause or contribute to physical disease such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma?
- Does timely and optimum treatment of mental health problems prevent, arrest or roll back the progression of physical disease?
- Can interventions such as hypnosis, biofeedback, behavioral modification, cognitive and relaxation therapies impact the immune system and thereby alleviate the growing list of disorders believed to have a significant inflammatory component?
To acknowledge your efforts and commitments to shaping this discussion, the Specialty Chief Editor will select and award the best article submitted to this collection. The authors of the winning paper from the Editor's Challenge in Psychosomatics will receive a waiver for the article processing charge on their next submission to Frontiers in Psychiatry.
The Specialty Chief Editor, Professor Stephan Zipfel, would like to invite critical, ambitious and courageous contributions that can provide new insights and stimulate constructive debate around the following questions:
- Do mental health problems cause or contribute to physical disease such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma?
- Does timely and optimum treatment of mental health problems prevent, arrest or roll back the progression of physical disease?
- Can interventions such as hypnosis, biofeedback, behavioral modification, cognitive and relaxation therapies impact the immune system and thereby alleviate the growing list of disorders believed to have a significant inflammatory component?
To acknowledge your efforts and commitments to shaping this discussion, the Specialty Chief Editor will select and award the best article submitted to this collection. The authors of the winning paper from the Editor's Challenge in Psychosomatics will receive a waiver for the article processing charge on their next submission to Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Keywords: Immune system, Disease, Interventions, Therapies, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Inflammatory
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
