The role of psychosocial factors and psychiatric disorders in functional dyspepsia

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 158-167

  Van Oudenhove, Lukas ^a   Aziz, Qasim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRESS HORMONE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPEPSIA; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNCTION;

ANXIETY; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; DYSPEPSIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84875225854     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.10     Document Type: Review

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