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November 17, 2015Psychosomatic Medicine55 citations

Influence of Interoceptive Fear Learning on Visceral Perception

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JZJonas ZamanNWNathalie WeltensHLHuynh Giao Ly

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how fear learning with visceral stimuli affects visceral perception and anxiety in gastrointestinal disorders.
  • Data obtained from experiments using visceral stimuli for fear learning.
  • Assessment of fear generalization and its impact on visceral perception.
  • Analysis focused on the relationship between fear and gastrointestinal-specific anxiety.
  • Fear learning significantly induced fear generalization related to visceral stimuli.
  • Findings indicate a contribution to visceral hypersensitivity in functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Abstract

These data show that fear learning using visceral stimuli induces fear generalization and influences visceral perception. These findings support the idea that in functional gastrointestinal disorder, fear learning and generalization can foster gastrointestinal-specific anxiety and contribute to visceral hypersensitivity.

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Zaman et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6990751bc4a7da264f9e9acehttps://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000000257
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