Brain imaging and functional gastrointestinal disorders: has it helped our understanding?
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Brain imaging and functional gastrointestinal disorders: has it helped our understanding?
Correspondence to: Dr Q Aziz, University of Manchester, Section of GI Sciences, Hope Hospital, Salford, Lancashire M6 8HD, UK; [email protected] _________________________ T he 1990s were heralded as the ‘‘decade of the brain’’ amid excitement that major advances in imaging technology coupled with huge financial investment would finally allow neuroscientists to unravel the mysteries of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.035642