Colonic Sensitivity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Normal Subjects According to their Hemispheric Preference and Cognitive Style

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 54-62

  Fent, János ^a   Balázs, László ^a   Buzás, György ^b   Erasmus, Lutz Peter ^c   Hölzl, Rupert ^c   Kovács, Ágota ^b   Weisz, Júlia ^a   Ádám, György ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b First Dept of Internal Medicine   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLON; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; IRRITABLE COLON; LEARNING; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; ORIENTATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; ORIENTATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032612521     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688710     Document Type: Article

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