Gastroenterology
Volume 134, Issue 2 , Pages 396-404 , February 2008

Effect of Abuse History on Pain Reports and Brain Responses to Aversive Visceral Stimulation: An fMRI Study

  • Yehuda Ringel

      Affiliations

    • UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Yehuda Ringel, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1140 Bioinformatics Bldg, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599. fax: (919) 843-0800.
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  • Douglas A. Drossman

      Affiliations

    • UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Jane L. Leserman

      Affiliations

    • UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Brandall Y. Suyenobu

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health, Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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  • Kathy Wilber

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neuroradiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Weili Lin

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neuroradiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • William E. Whitehead

      Affiliations

    • UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Bruce D. Naliboff

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health, Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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  • Steven Berman

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health, Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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  • Emeran A. Mayer

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health, Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Received 7 May 2007 ,Accepted 18 October 2007.

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 Supported by K23 DK075621 (to Y.R.), DK48351, RO1 MH46959 (to D.D.), R24 DK067674 (to W.E.W. and D.D.), R24 AT002681 (to E.A.M.), P50 DK64539 (to E.A.M.), and RO1 DK48351 (to E.A.M.).

 Conflicts of interest: No conflicts of interest exist.

PII: S0016-5085(07)02024-0

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.11.011

Gastroenterology
Volume 134, Issue 2 , Pages 396-404 , February 2008

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