This approach suggests a multi-factorial explanation for the condition, with interactions between biological, psychological and social factors maintaining symptoms.
Either fear of violence or allergen exposures may have been high enough to independently induce or maintain symptoms.
So, regardless if some symptoms are the result of physical injury, it is important to consider other processes than the pure organic that might initiate and maintain symptoms [ 25].
Such findings are important theoretically in that they support models of anxiety which propose that information processing biases work together and stem from a common mechanism to maintain symptoms (e.g., Bishop, 2007; Mathews & Mackintosh, 1998).
Our results, counter to our initial hypotheses, suggested a saturation effect in our very high-exposure public housing cohort, where either high exposure alone may have been adequate to induce or maintain symptoms.
For instance, if a patient becomes anxious (emotion) about the symptoms, believes he/she has no control over them (cognitions) and responds by avoiding social situations (behaviour), this can increase anxiety and maintain symptoms through the link between a heightened autonomic nervous system and the enteric nervous system.
For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, patients who respond to a probiotic might take that in the long term, Lebwohl says, so as to maintain symptom control.
Participants were monitored for 30 minutes after challenge and asked to maintain symptom diaries until Day 7.
Most of the two billion people infected with Mycobacterium species control infection by maintaining symptom-free latency of the bacilli in chronic granulomas.
