Amitriptyline reduces rectal pain related activation of the anterior cingulate cortex in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Gut

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 601-607

  Morgan, V ^a   Pickens, D ^a   Gautam, S ^a   Kessler, R ^a   Mertz, H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; PLACEBO; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LIMBIC CORTEX; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; RECTUM PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DILATATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECTUM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 17644384100     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2004.047423     Document Type: Article

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