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1. Increase of Dopamine turnover induced by defended anxiety and helplessness as cause of oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease: a hypothesis (1996/98)
   The basic hypothesis, which is a working paper but still - in its conclusions - fully valid

2. Suppressed anxiety as a symptom in Parkinson’s disease: thoughts on causal connections and psychotherapy (1998)
   This is the basic paper presenting the most important experiences, which brought me to assume that psychological factors play a major role.

3. Trauma hypothesis in Parkinson's disease (2000)
   The psychological element in a multifactor cause of Parkinson's disease

4. Psychological trauma and vegetative nervous system in Parkinson's disease: a vagal hypothesis (2000)
   An important function for the understanding of trauma and the possible consequence of severe (chronic) illness

5. Chronic shame as a mechanism of materializing trauma effects in Parkinson's disease (2004)
   Shame seems to be an underestimated emotion having an important motor effect.

6. The experience of symptom "triggers" (2005)
   I have the feeling that I start to be able to sense certain psycho-physical mechanisms triggering certain symptoms.

7. Trauma, shame and malfunction of innate survival mechanisms in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (2005)
   Chronic malfunction of innate biological survival mechanisms as cause of Parkinson's disease?

8. Emotional trauma in Parkinson's disease: a hypothesis (2006) - pdf
   A complex hypothesis based on a simple model

9. Emotional trauma as potential ethological  factor in idiopathic Parkinson´s disease (2007) - pdf
   Summary of the research work

10. Emotional trauma hypothesis in Parkinson's disease (2007) - pdf
    Summary of an even more complex hypothesis
     

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