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Peter Henningsen is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a significant focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health as well as Clinical Psychology. Additional subfields include Philosophy, Social Psychology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Peter Henningsen has contributed to a variety of publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators of this researcher consist of:

  • Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle
  • Jochen Gensichen
  • Heribert Sattel
  • Antonius Schneider
  • Victoria von Schrottenberg

In terms of authored books, Henningsen has one published by Springer Nature titled Allgemeine Psychosomatische Medizin (2021) and another published by Aarhus University Press called Stavnsbåndet (2020).

The recent papers associated with Peter Henningsen include:

  • Functional somatic disorders: discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Fatigue, depression, and pain in multiple sclerosis: How neuroinflammation translates into dysfunctional reward processing and anhedonic symptoms, 2020, Multiple Sclerosis Journal
  • Prevalence and overlap of somatic symptom disorder, bodily distress syndrome and fibromyalgia syndrome in the German general population: A cross sectional study, 2020, Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Migraine in the context of chronic primary pain, chronic overlapping pain disorders, and functional somatic disorders: A narrative review, 2022, Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Anomalies in the review process and interpretation of the evidence in the NICE guideline for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis, 2023, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Medically unexplained physical symptoms, anxiety, and depression: a meta-analytic review.

    Peter Henningsen;Thomas Zimmermann;Heribert Sattel

  • Psychosomatic Medicine in Germany: More Timely than Ever

    Stephan Zipfel;Wolfgang Herzog;Johannes Kruse;Peter Henningsen

  • Management of functional somatic syndromes.

    Peter Henningsen;Stephan Zipfel;Wolfgang Herzog

  • Your Robot Therapist Will See You Now: Ethical Implications of Embodied Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy.

    Amelia Fiske;Peter Henningsen;Alena Buyx

  • Oxytocin enhances the experience of attachment security

    Anna Buchheim;Markus Heinrichs;Carol George;Dan Pokorny

  • Depression, anxiety, and somatoform disorders: vague or distinct categories in primary care? Results from a large cross-sectional study.

    Gertraud Hanel;Peter Henningsen;Wolfgang Herzog;Nina Sauer;Nina Sauer

  • Management of Functional Somatic Syndromes and Bodily Distress.

    Peter Henningsen;Stephan Zipfel;Heribert Sattel;Francis Creed

  • Psychiatric comorbidity and psychosocial impairment among patients with vertigo and dizziness

    Claas Lahmann;Peter Henningsen;Thomas Brandt;Michael Strupp

  • Development and Validation of the Somatic Symptom Disorder-B Criteria Scale (SSD-12).

    Anne-Kristin Toussaint;Alexandra Murray;Katharina Voigt;Annabel Herzog

  • Is there a better term than "medically unexplained symptoms"?

    Francis Creed;Elspeth Guthrie;Per Fink;Peter Henningsen

  • Persistent Physical Symptoms as Perceptual Dysregulation: A Neuropsychobehavioral Model and Its Clinical Implications

    Peter Henningsen;Harald Gündel;Willem J Kop;Bernd Löwe

  • Brief relaxation versus music distraction in the treatment of dental anxiety: a randomized controlled clinical trial

    Claas Lahmann;Rainer Schoen;Peter Henningsen;Joram Ronel

  • Functional somatic disorders: discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use

    Christopher Burton;Per Fink;Peter Henningsen;Bernd Löwe

  • Non-Specific, Functional, and Somatoform Bodily Complaints

    Rainer Schaefert;Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle;Winfried Häuser;Joram Ronel

  • Patients with pain disorder show gray-matter loss in pain-processing structures: a voxel-based morphometric study.

    Michael Valet;Harald Gündel;Till Sprenger;Christian Sorg

  • Brief psychodynamic interpersonal psychotherapy for patients with multisomatoform disorder: randomised controlled trial

    Heribert Sattel;Claas Lahmann;Harald Gündel;Elspeth Guthrie

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  • Fibromyalgia syndrome: classification, diagnosis, and treatment.

    Winfried Häuser;Wolfgang Eich;Markus Herrmann;Detlev O. Nutzinger

  • Irritable bowel syndrome: Relations with functional, mental, and somatoform disorders

    Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle;Peter Henningsen

  • Somatization revisited: diagnosis and perceived causes of common mental disorders.

    Peter Henningsen;Thorsten Jakobsen;Marcus Schiltenwolf;Mitchell G Weiss

  • Psychological burden of food allergy.

    Martin Teufel;Tilo Biedermann;Nora Rapps;Constanze Hausteiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Stephan Zipfel
Stephan Zipfel University of Tübingen
Claudia Sommer
Claudia Sommer University of Würzburg
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Olga Pollatos
Olga Pollatos University of Ulm
Wolfgang Schneider
Wolfgang Schneider University of Würzburg
Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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