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Editors of persistentsomaticsymptoms.com, on the photo from left to right:

  • Lineke Tak is a psychiatrist and researcher at Dimence Alkura, a Specialist Center PSS based in mental health care in Deventer, the Netherlands and has a PhD in the role of stress responsive systems in PSS and functional syndromes at the University Medical Center Groningen.
  • Birgit aan de Stegge was previously a neurologist and is now specialized as an elderly psychiatrist working at BuurtzorgT, Deventer, the Netherlands with a special interest in PSS in the elderly, and sleep and movement disorders.
  • Maartje van den Berg is a pediatrician in the Haaglanden Medical Center and project leader of Polikliniek SAMEN: a regional collaboration between pediatricians, youth doctors and psychologists for children and adolescents with PSS in The Hague, the Netherlands. Maartje obtained her PhD in diagnostics and treatment of severe functional constipation in children.

    On persistensomaticsymptoms.com we report about the news about Persistent Somatic Symptoms (PSS). We also invite guest writers who research or have clinical experience with PSS.

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