This functional magnetic resonance imaging study addressed similarities and differences in
behavioral and neural responses to experimental visceral compared with somatic pain …

Introduction We assessed sex differences in behavioural and neural responses to rectal
pain stimuli in healthy subjects. Methods In age‐and body mass index‐matched healthy …

Visceral and somatic pain perception differs in several aspects: poor localization of visceral
pain and the ability of visceral pain to be referred to somatic structures. The perception of …

The widespread convergence of information from visceral, cutaneous, and muscle tissues
onto CNS neurons invites the question of how to identify pain as being from the viscera …

Sex differences in learned fear regarding aversive gastrointestinal stimuli could play a role
in the female preponderance of chronic abdominal pain. In a fear conditioning model with …

Low-grade systemic inflammation has been implicated in chronic pain, as well as in
comorbid diseases like depression and fatigue. We have previously shown that women's …

Women demonstrate higher pain sensitivity and prevalence of chronic visceral pain
conditions such as functional gastrointestinal disorders than men. The role of sex differences …

With the recent publication of three excellent studies, one in this issue [15], and two
previously [13, 14], our pain community may, at last, have reached a tipping point regarding …

Different pain types may be encoded in different brain circuits. Here, we examine similarities
and differences in brain processing of visceral and somatic pain. We analyze data from …

The aim of the study was to analyse effects of psychological stress on the neural processing
of visceral stimuli in healthy women. The brain functional magnetic resonance imaging …