Visceral sensory and cognitive-affective neuroscience: towards integration?

摘要

Despite rapidly growing evidence supporting a link between psychological processes-both cognitive and affective-and visceral sensation in health as well as functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), the neural mechanisms underlying these interactions remain infrequently studied within the field of 'neurogastroenterology' and therefore rather poorly understood.1 The somatic pain field, in contrast, has already made considerable progress in unravelling these complex brain mechanisms by which emotion (eg, anxiety) and cognition (eg, attention) influence the processing and perception of bodily signals.