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.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number4
ISSN0016-5085
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 20600024