Benjamin H Natelson

Biographic Data

ID830524
NAMEBenjamin H Natelson
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin H
FAMILY NAMENatelson
SIGNATURENATELSON B H
AFFILIATIONSEast Orange VA Medical Center
ORCID0000-0002-0141-5844
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX1

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Male Gulf War Veterans and Civilians

    Open AccessDonald S Ciccone, Lois Weissman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2008Cited by: 3References: 22

    Different modes of fatigue onset in male Gulf War veterans versus male civilians raise the possibility that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) may not be a single disease entity. We addressed this issue by comparing 45 male veterans with CFS to 84 male civilians who satisfied identical case criteria. All were evaluated for fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity and psychiatric comorbidity. CFS was more likely to present in a sudden flu-like…

  • Responses to Controlled Diesel Vapor Exposure Among Chemically Sensitive Gulf War Veterans

    Nancy Fiedler, Nicholas D Giardino et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2004

    OBJECTIVE: A significant proportion of Gulf War veterans (GWVs) report chemical sensitivity, fatigue, and unexplained symptoms resulting in ongoing disability. GWVs frequently recall an association between diesel and petrochemical fume exposure and symptoms during service. The purpose of the present study among GWVs was to evaluate the immediate health effects of acute exposure to chemicals (diesel vapors with acetaldehyde) with and without stres…

  • Comorbid Illness in Women With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Donald S Ciccone, Benjamin H NatelsonARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2003

    OBJECTIVE: Evidence of comorbidity among unexplained illness syndromes raises the possibility that all are variants of a single functional disorder, leading some to suggest that separate case definitions for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) may be unnecessary. Our objective was to determine whether discrete diagnostic labels provide useful information about physical functioning, symptom se…

  • Baroreceptor Reflex and Integrative Stress Responses in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Arnold Peckerman, John J LaManca et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2003

    OBJECTIVE: Altered cardiovascular responses to mental and postural stressors have been reported in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This study examined whether those findings may involve changes in baroreceptor reflex functioning. METHODS: Chronotropic baroreceptor reflex (by sequential analysis) and cardiovascular stress responses were recorded during postural (5-minute of active standing) and cognitive (speech task) stress testing in patients wi…

  • Birth Order and its Association with the Onset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Michael Brimacombe, Drew A Helmer et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2002

    Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a medically unexplained illness that is diagnosed on the basis of a clinical case definition; so it probably is an illness with multiple causes producing the same clinical picture. One way of dealing with this heterogeneity is to stratify patients based on illness onset. We hypothesized that either the whole group of CFS patients or that group which developed CFS gradually would show a relation with birth order, …

  • Cardiovascular Responses of Women With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to Stressful Cognitive Testing Before and After Strenuous Exercise

    John J LaManca, Arnold Peckerman et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2001

    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the cardiovascular responses of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) to healthy control subjects when performing stressful cognitive tasks before and after strenuous exercise. METHOD: Beat-by-beat blood pressure and electrocardiogram were recorded on 19 women with CFS and 20 healthy nonexercising (ie, sedentary) women while they performed cognitive tests before, immediately after, and 24…

  • Cardiovascular Stress Responses and Their Relation to Symptoms in Gulf War Veterans With Fatiguing Illness

    Arnold Peckerman, John J LaManca et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2000

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine whether inappropriate cardiovascular responses to stressors may underlie symptoms in Gulf War veterans with chronic fatigue. METHODS: Psychophysiological stress testing was performed on 51 Gulf War veterans with chronic fatigue (using the 1994 case definition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and 42 healthy veterans. Hemodynamic responses to cold pressor, speech, and arithmeti…

  • The Role of Stressor Intensity and Underlying Vasculopathy in Altering Coronary Reactivity in Cardiomyopathic Hamsters

    Qiang Chang, Benjamin H Natelson et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1997

    OBJECTIVE: Our previous work showed that stress sensitized the vessels of cardiomyopathic hamsters (CMHs), but only hamsters in the lesion-forming period of their life. We hypothesized that we would find an interaction between stressor intensity and microvascular vulnerability. METHOD: Male CMHs at ages of 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 months were stressed with supine immobilization for five consecutive days. Stressor intensity was manipulated by immobilizin…

  • Assessing Somatization Disorder in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Susan K Johnson, John Deluca et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1996

    This study was conducted to examine the rates of somatization disorder (SD) in the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) relative to other fatiguing illness groups. It further addressed the arbitrary nature of the judgments made in assigning psychiatric vs. physical etiology to symptoms in controversial illnesses such as CFS. Patients with CFS (N = 42), multiple sclerosis (MS) (N = 18), and depression (N = 21) were compared with healthy individuals (N =…

  • Classical aversive conditioning of catecholamine and corticosterone responses

    Open AccessDavid L Pitman, David Pitman et al.ARTICLEIntegrative Psychological and…1992References: 16

  • Hamsters with coronary vasospasm are at increased risk from stress

    Benjamin H Natelson, Walter N Tapp et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1991

    Results of earlier experiments suggested that hamsters with inherited heart disease were at a higher risk of succumbing to stress during the vasospastic, lesion-forming period of their lives rather than later when the process of congestive heart failure had begun. To test this hypothesis, we stressed cardiomyopathic hamsters (CMH) whose ages differed by about 3 months; the younger of the two groups of stressed hamsters was in the vasospastic phas…

  • Handbook of Stress

    Benjamin H NatelsonARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1984

  • Stress-Induced Heart Failure

    Walter N Tapp, Barry E Levin et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1983

    Stress produced heart failure in cardiomyopathic hamsters (CMHs) with subclinical heart disease. CMHs exhibited a variety of peripheral manifestations of heart failure including subcutaneous edema, fluid in the abdominal and thoracic cavities, and increased organ weight. In contrast, stress did not produce heart failure in healthy hamsters. These data indicate that the presence of covert heart disease can dramatically alter the pathogenic consequ…

  • Bidirectional Effect of Naloxone on Emotionally Conditioned Digitalis Toxicity

    Benjamin H Natelson, Norman A Cagin et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1982

    Natelson, B. H.; Cagin, N. A.; Tufts, M.; Ferrara, M.; Biehl, D.; Abramson, M. Author Information

  • Effects of Shock Predictability and Naloxone on Preference for Signaled over Unsignaled Tail Shock

    Norman Hymowitz, Benjamin H NatelsonARTICLEThe Journal of General Psychology1982

    Effects of Shock Predictability and Naloxone on Preference for Signaled over Unsignaled Tail Shock." The Journal of General Psychology, 107(1), pp. 159–160

  • The Role of Shock Predictability During Aversive Conditioning in Producing Psychosomatic Digitalis Toxicity

    Benjamin H Natelson, Norman A CaginARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1981

    Guinea pigs were subjected to Pavlovian fear conditioning (signaled shock) and then infused with a fast acting digitalis preparation on a day when all experimental stimuli except shock were delivered. A significant shortening in latency to the onset of life-threatening digitalis toxicity was found when comparisons were made to control pigs that had never been shocked. This effect was not found in other guinea pigs infused with ouabain after expos…

  • Selyeʼs Guide to Stress Research Volume I

    Benjamin H NatelsonARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1980

  • Stress-Induced Ventricular Arrhythmias

    Benjamin H Natelson, Norman A CaginARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1979

    Restraint stress produced ventricular arrhythmias in seven of seven guinea pigs monitored by a Holter ECG recorder. Couplets and ventricular tachycardia, never seen in unrestrained guinea pigs, were noted in three. The arrhythmias were associated with high heart rates which showed no tendency to decrease during the restraint period