Psychosomatic Medicine

Staff

Prof. Kanbara
Prof.KANBARA
  • Professor
    • kenji KANBARA,MD., Ph.D.

Current Research Projects

  • Pathophysiology in patients with psychosomatic disorders and/or functional somatic syndromes (FSSs) based on Psychophysiological Stress Profile (PSP).
  • Emotional process and somatic Interoceptive awareness in patients with psychosomatic disorder.
  • Investigation about alexithymia and alexisomia.
  • A study of stress assessment and prediction of disease risk using psycho-physiological monitoring in daily life.
  • Analysis of psychosomatic interaction and stress response based on nonlinear models.
  • Biofeedback in psychosomatic medicine.

Representative Publications

  • Links among emotional awareness, somatic awareness and autonomic homeostatic processing. Kanbara K, Fukunaga M. BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 10(16), 1-11, 2016.
  • An exploratory study of subgrouping of patients with functional somatic syndrome based on the psychophysiological stress response: its relationship with moods and subjective variables. Kanbara K, Fukunaga M, Mutsuura H, Takeuchi H, Kitamura K, Nakai Y. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 158-165, 2007.
  • Characteristics of Psychophysiological Stress Responses in Patients with Psychosomatic Disorders. Kanbara K, Mitani Y, Fukunaga M, et al. Japanese Journnal of Psychosomatic Medicine, 45(9), 685-695, 2005.

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