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		<title>Adverse Childhood Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A therapist recently posed a key question about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): what is the benefit to a patient of their family doctor knowing this information? The benefit, which can be considerable, derives from relieving the long-term psycho-social consequences of ACEs.  The two most fundamentally important of these consequences are low self-esteem and unrecognized anger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress and the Immune System: Dr Robert Ader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty five years ago, Robert Ader, PhD serendipitously discovered a key part of our physiology that was not thought to exist.  The story begins with rats drinking water sweetened with saccharine.  Half the rats were simultaneously given low doses of Cytoxan to cause stomach pain.  (Cytoxan is a chemotherapy drug for cancer.)  It was no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Medical Blind Spot Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Changing the System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest evidence of the woeful state of care for Psychophysiologic Disorders (Stress Illness) comes from my local newspaper.  In a Health column, we find the following question from a reader: &#8220;I have severe back pain but my MRI appears to be normal.  What are my options?  Can you help?&#8221; The &#8220;answer&#8221; is provided by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress, Illness and Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patient Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress Illness Causes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Stresses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A match for the Women&#8217;s World Chess Championship recently finished in Tirana, the capital of Albania.  The winner was incumbent champion Hou Yifan, a 17 year old from China who won the title last December, the youngest ever.  The pressure on her was enormous for several reasons.  The weight of national pride was heightened by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Medical and Mental Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the 13th Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) meeting in Philadelphia last week.  A prominent theme was difficulty gaining acceptance from medical clinicians about the role of mental/behavioral health practitioners in the primary care setting.  These practitioners provide skills helping people with complex medication regimens (insulin for example), weight management, smoking cessation, exercise regimens, substance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress, Illness and Social Change</title>
		<link>http://www.stressillness.com/blog/?p=1450</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first, you would not think the town of Seneca Falls, New York (USA), population 7000, would have much to contribute to thinking about Psychophysiologic Disorders (PPD, stress illness).  But it does, as I learned when I spent a few hours there this week. The tale begins in 1840 with a woman named Elizabeth Cady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress Illness and CBT</title>
		<link>http://www.stressillness.com/blog/?p=1436</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stress Illness (also known as Psychophysiologic Disorder or PPD) is one of the most common causes of Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS).  These are symptoms for which no link to a diseased organ or structure can be found after diagnostic testing.  Javier Escobar, MD and colleagues (1) at the Robert Wood Johnson medical school in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychophysiologic Disorders Association is Launched (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the review from the last post of Pathways for Growth for the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (PPDA). Pathways for Growth (cont&#8217;d) Step 5: We publish the Core Diagnostic Principles (CDP), Common Terminology (CT) and Core Therapeutic Principles (CTP) and the success (when we achieve it) of the PPD Referral Network(s) in a peer-reviewed journal, possibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychophysiologic Disorders Association is Launched (2)</title>
		<link>http://www.stressillness.com/blog/?p=1404</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the discussion from the last post of the launch of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (PPDA), which plans to become the leading source of evidence-based information about PPD for health care professionals and the public.  Potential donors will be interested in our plans for the future and how their money will be used. Continuing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychophysiologic Disorders Association is Launched (1)</title>
		<link>http://www.stressillness.com/blog/?p=1390</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to report exciting news for everyone concerned with breaking down the silos that divide Mind from Body in our health care system.  The Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (PPDA) was incorporated in the U.S. State of Oregon on March 17, 2011 and, two months later, was granted tax-exempt status under Chapter 501(c)(3) by the [...]]]></description>
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