From sensation to perception: The gut-brain connection

Chronic Abdominal and Visceral Pain: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 193-203

  Azpiroz, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

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