Dyspepsia, in Sympathy with an Over-Wrought Brain

In Sympathy with Narrative Characters

Sympathetic responses to characters are a pervasive form of narrative engagement, and they contribute importantly to what makes perceiving a narrative a rewarding experience. Yet, the notion of sympathy has received relatively little attention in contemporary philosophy of art, especially when compared to the lively debates surrounding the notion of empathy.1 Here, I propose an analysis of symp...

Overlap in Patients With Dyspepsia/Functional Dyspepsia

Patients with dyspepsia/functional dyspepsia (FD) show frequent overlapping of other gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, such as irri-table bowel syndrome, and non-GI diseases, in addition to internal subgroup overlapping. These overlap patients have more frequent or more severe symptoms, poorer health-related quality of life and higher somatization scores, and they are more like-ly to experience a...

Psychological factors in patients with peptic ulcer and functional dyspepsia

Abstract Background: The role of psychological factors in peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and functional dyspepsia (FD) has not been clearly determined. In this study the role of conflict management styles, psychiatric symptoms, and alexithymia were assessed in patients with PUD and FD and in the healthy individuals. Methods: Ninety subjects [30PUD (15 women, 15 men), 30 FD (15 women, 15 men), and...

Generalized Sympathy *

In (1a), an epenthetic vowel is inserted in a word-final cluster: /melk/ → melex. In (1b), [ ] deletes in the coda position. As shown in (1c), the interaction of the epenthesis and deletion has been traditionally analyzed in terms of the counter-bleeding order: UR /des / first undergoes the epenthesis and then the epenthesized intermediate form [des e ] undergoes -deletion, deriving the surface...

What Hath We Wrought?