Four experiments examined new associative learning in amnesia by contrasting the performance of 2 amnesic participants-1 (C.C.) with basal forebrain damage and the other (R.H.) with medial temporal lobe damage--and 3 controls. Both amnesic individuals were severely impaired on explicit memory measures but showed intact perceptual priming. On the new associations measures, only C.C., not R.H., e...

A 15-year-old girl was referred with a 2-year history of perennial non-productive cough, which had been preceded by Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and subsequent asthma. Symptoms were only partially responsive to anti-asthma treatment including an inhaled corticosteroid and a leukotriene receptor antagonist. The patient's BMI was 27.8; she had gained over 10 kg in the previous two years. Typic...

INTRODUCTION In normal subjects, transient lower oesophageal sphincter relaxations (TLOSRs) and gas reflux during belching are suppressed in the supine position. Supine reflux, however, is a feature of reflux disease. AIMS To investigate whether postural suppression of TLOSRs and gas reflux is impaired in patients with reflux disease. PATIENTS Ten patients with erosive oesophagitis. METHO...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about adverse symptoms over time from fiber supplementation is lacking. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the severity of adverse gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms during supplementation with dietary fiber or placebo over time in adults with fecal incontinence. A secondary aim was to determine the relationship between symptom severity and emotional upset and their...

Health care professionals assume that tube feeding is an unpleasant, distressing experience for patients, which is only partially substantiated by experience. Thirty patients were interviewed via a tube feeding and hospital experience checklist (a 47-item interview schedule). Common experiences were operationally defined as those felt by at least 50%; subjectively distressful experiences were t...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy is associated with an increased incidence of heartburn. However, there is no information for other symptoms related to gastro-esophageal reflux (GOR). AIM to assess the prevalence of atypical symptoms of GOR during pregnancy, and to examine its association with typical GOR symptoms. METHODS we report data for 263 women with a pregnancy of less than 12 weeks. They were i...

Copyright  2015 irjpbs Objective: To compare the efficacy and safety of levosulpiride with dompenidone in patients with functional dyspepsia Material & Method: It was a prospective, double blind, randomized study conducted on 182 patients in two groups of 91 each. Group A: levosulpiride 25mg TID daily orally for 4 weeks, Group B: Domperidone 10mg TID daily orally for 4 weeks. Individual sympto...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Supragastric belching (SGB) is a phenomenon during which air is sucked into the esophagus and then rapidly expelled through the mouth. Patients often complain of severely impaired quality of life. Our objective was to establish the prevalence of ex-cessive SGB within a high-volume gastrointestinal physiology unit, and evaluate its association with symptoms, esophageal mo-tility ...

was brought to the medical out-patient department of the Civil Hospital, Amritsar, on 10th May, 1932, complaining of pain, vomiting and a swelling of three days duration in the left hypochondrium. The patient looked seriously ill. He had acid eructations, great thirst, loss of appetite and bowels constipated. The swelling occupied the epigastric and the left hypochondriac regions and conformed ...

Background/Aims There are limited data about the relation between belching and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). We aim to evaluate belching in patients with IBS. Methods Twenty-five patients with IBS and 12 healthy volunteers were enrolled in the study. IBS was diagnosed in accordance with the Rome III criteria. All patients were questioned about the presence of symptoms for belching, gastroes...