Patients with irritable bowel syndrome have altered emotional modulation of neural responses to visceral stimuli.

  • Sigrid Elsenbruch
  • Christina Rosenberger
  • Ulrike Bingel
  • Michael Forsting
  • Manfred Schedlowski
  • Elke R Gizewski

Abstract

In patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), pain amplification and hypervigilance might result from altered affective-motivational modulation of the pain response. We investigated the effects of emotional context on the behavioral and neural response to visceral stimuli in IBS patients.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheDeutsch
Aufsatznummer4
ISSN0016-5085
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2010
pubmed 20600024