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Gastroenterology April
2006 Issue:
Rome III
http://www.romecriteria.org/GastroIssue.htm
Five-Year NIH Grant on Mind-Body Interactions and Health
September 2004
Chapel Hill, NC - The UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders
has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
to foster interdisciplinary research on the interactions among the mind and body
in health and disease. The Center will receive a total of $4.3 million over a
five-year period to establish a Gastrointestinal Biopsychosocial Research Center
focused on the causes and treatment of functional gastrointestinal (GI)
disorders.
http://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/fgidc/news_09_2004-2.htm
Palsson Quoted in Newsweek Regarding Hypnosis and
IBS Treatment
September 23, 2004
Chapel Hill, NC - Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D., is quoted in the September
27, 2004, edition of Newsweek magazine in an article titled "Altered
States -- Hypnosis can help with problems from anxiety to pain. How it works and
what it does in the brain." Dr. Palsson is a clinical psychologist and associate
professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of
Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The article notes how a growing body of research supports the ancient practice
of hypnosis "as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems,
from anxiety to chronic pain." Dr. Palsson has conducted research in this area
and has developed a detailed, seven-session hypnosis protocol for the treatment
of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), often including the vivid imagery used to
address the abdominal pain associated with this functional bowel disorder.
http://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/fgidc/news_09_2004-1.htm
Gender Differences In Brain Response To Pain
Combo Treatment Best for IBS webmd
New Approach Uses GI Specialist and Psychoanalyst Together
Tegaserod Rapidly Effective in Patients With
Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome
FDA APPROVES RESTRICTED MARKETING OF
LOTRONEX
FDA Approves Zelnorm for Irritable Bowel
Syndrome in Women With Constipation
(07/24/02)
U.N.C Center for Functional GI and Motility
Disorders:
Bacteria Overgrowth
and IBS
by Douglas A. Drossman, M.D.
Using Relaxation in Coping with Functional
Gastrointestinal Disorders
by Kenneth R. Jones, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine/Clinical Psychologist
Steve Heymen, M.S.
Instructor of Medicine/Certified Biofeedback Therapist
The Effects of Hypnosis on Gastrointestinal Problems
by Dr. Olafur S. Palsson
Public Information website by Dr. Olafur S.
Palsson who is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he has
been the director of the EVMS Behavioral Medicine Clinic since 1996. Some of the
latest in IBS and hypnosis research from a top researcher.
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