Simmering Innards: Does Irritable Bowl Syndrome Have an Immunological Basis?

Immunological Basis of Neurological Diseases

Clinical neurology has been traditionally considered as an academic speciality in which the specialist regurgitates his/her knowledge of neurology without being able to do much for the patient. This attitude is no longer acceptable. Surge of information and discoveries in neurosciences within the last two decades translated into therapeutic interventions which is literally life saving in some o...

Migraine and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: an Epidemiological Study

Background: Migraine and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are chronic conditions that seem to share common pathophysiological aspects. Objectives: Our study aimed to estimate the prevalence of IBS in an Iranian migraine population, investigate its association with headache's characteristics and depression. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was done in a tertiary hospital cli...

Does Crohn's disease have a mycobacterial basis?

The growing case for an immunological component to irritable bowel syndrome.

It is now generally accepted that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a multifactorial condition with a variety of mechanisms being involved in its pathogenesis. In addition to psychological influences, which have probably been somewhat over-rated in the past, abnormalities of motility, visceral sensation as well as the central processing of noxious stimuli have been demonstrated [1]. The conditi...

Why Do Irritable Bowel Syndrome Women Often Have Nausea Symptom?

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Full-Young Chang, MD Division Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General...