Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-17T21:23:37.622Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The irritable bowel syndrome: soma and psyche1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

References

Besterman, H. S., Sarson, D. L., Rambaud, J. C., Stewart, J. S., Guerin, S. & Bloom, S. R. (1981). Gut hormone responses in the irritable bowel syndrome. Digestion 21, 219224.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bordie, A. K. (1972). Functional disorders of the colon. Journal of the Indian Medical Association 58, 451456.Google ScholarPubMed
Burns, T. W. (1980). Colonic motility in the irritable bowel syndrome. Archives of Internal Medicine 140, 247251.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chaudhary, N. A. & Truelove, S. C. (1962). The irritable colon syndrome. A study of the clinical features, predisposing causes and prognosis in 130 cases. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 31, 307322.Google ScholarPubMed
Creed, F. (1981). Life events and appendicectomy. Lancet ii, 13811385.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eastwood, M. A. & Nyhlin, H. (1981). Irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology 80, 633(c).CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Esler, M. D. & Goulston, K. J. (1973). Levels of anxiety in colonic disorders. New England Journal of Medicine 288, 1620.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fielding, J. F. (1977). The irritable bowel syndrome: the clinical spectrum. Clinics in Gastroenterology 6 (3), 607622.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fielding, J. F. & Melvin, K. (1979). Dietary fibre and the irritable bowel syndrome. Journal of Human Nutrition 33, 243247.Google ScholarPubMed
Goy, J. A. E., Eastwood, M. A., Mitchell, W. D., Pritchard, J. L. & Smith, A. N. (1976). Faecal characteristics contrasted in the irritable bowel syndrome and diverticular disease. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 29, 14801484.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Harvey, R. F. (1977). The irritable bowel syndrome. Hormonal influences. Clinics in Gastroenterology 6 (3), 631641.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hislop, I. G. (1971). Psychological significance of the irritable colon syndrome. Gut 12. 452457.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Holdstock, D. J., Misiewicz, J. J. & Waller, S. L. (1969). Observations on the mechanism of abdominal pain. Gut 10, 1931.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Horowitz, L. & Farrar, J. T. (1962). Intraluminal small intestinal pressures in normal patients and in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders. Gastroenterology 42, 455464.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lane, D. (1973). The irritable colon and right iliac fossa pain. Medical Journal of Australia i, 6667.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Manning, A. P., Heaton, K. W., Harvey, R. F. & Uglow, P. (1977). Wheat fibre and irritable bowel syndrome. Lancet ii, 417418.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Manning, A. P., Thompson, W. G., Heaton, K. W. & Morris, A. F. (1978). Towards positive diagnosis of the irritable bowel. British Medical Journal ii, 653654.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mendeloff, A. I., Monk, M., Siegel, C. I. & Lilienfield, A. (1970). Illness experience and life stresses in patients with irritable colon and with ulcerative colitis. New England Journal of Medicine 282, 1417.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nyhlin, H. & Eastwood, M. A. (1981). Comparison of various treatments for irritable bowel syndrome. British Medical Journal 282, 74 75(c).CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Painter, N. S. (1972). Irritable or irritated bowel. British Medical Journal ii, 46(c).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Palmer, R. L., Stonehill, E., Crisp, A. H., Waller, S. L. & Misiewicz, J. J. (1974). Psychological characteristics of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome. Postgraduate Medical Journal 50, 416419.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pena, A. S. & Truelove, S. C. (1972). Hypolactasia and the irritable colon syndrome. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology 7, 433438.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Peters, G. A. & Bargen, J. A. (1944). The irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology 3, 399402.Google Scholar
Ritchie, J. (1977). The irritable bowel syndrome. Manometric and cineradiographic studies. Clinics in Gastroenterology 6 (3), 622631.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Robertson, J. A. & Eastwood, M. A. (1981). An examination of factors which may affect the water-holding capacity of dietary fibre. British Journal of Nutrition 45, 8387.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Thompson, W. G. & Heaton, K. W. (1980). Functional bowel disorders in apparently healthy people. Gastroenterology 79, 283288.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wangel, A. G. & Deller, D. J. (1965). Intestinal motility in man. Mechanisms of constipation and diarrhoea with particular reference to the irritable colon syndrome. Gastroenterology 48, 6984.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whitehead, W. E., Engel, B. T. & Schuster, M. M. (1980). Irritable bowel syndrome. Physiological and psychological differences between diarrhoea-predominant and constipation-predominant patients. Digestive Diseases and Sciences 25, 404413.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whorwell, P. J., Clouter, C. & Smith, C. L. (1981). Oesophageal motility in the irritable bowel syndrome. British Medical Journal 282, 11011102.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Young, S. J., Alpers, D. H., Norland, C. C. & Woodruff, R. A. (1976). Psychiatric illness and the irritable bowel syndrome. Practical implications for the primary physician. Gastroenterology 70, 162166.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed