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Measuring Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Activity in Toddlers - Resting and Developmental Challenges
Published on: February 25, 2016
[General psychosomatics in children and adolescents]
Ivan Begovac1, Ana Votava-Raić
1Klinika za psiholosku medicinu, KBC Zagreb.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is a review of contemporary knowledge from the field of children and adolescent psychosomatics by using standard textbooks and journals. Data are chosen according to their importance and easy reference for a clinical study and scientific research. Psychosomatics can be defined as medicine of mutual relationships in the widest sense. It seems that factors of bio-psycho-social area participate in etiology and pathogenesis, i.e. complex genetic, developmental, psychodynamic, neuroanatomical, psychoneurophysiological, neurobiochemical, psychoneuroimmunological, psychoneuroendocrinal, familiar, social and probably other factors. Children and adolescent psychiatry, pediatrics are mutually complementary. In the medical-psychosomatic field there is consideration in the form of spatial-operative models that have to be amended through the concepts of unconscious and preconscious as well as through a temporal-systematic perspective. A team approach will be applied in a therapy.
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