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It is commonly recognized that emotional factors affect the gastric mucosa. As early as 1833 William Beaumont made some most important findings on emotions and digestion [1]. However, it is surprising that few formal studies have so far investigated the psychological aspects of nonulcer dyspepsia [11]. Over the years, I have made some observations on patients who, according to data in the hterature, could be diagnosed as nonulcer dyspeptics [10–12]. The patients numbered 26 (16 women and 10 men; mean age 37.4 years), but since at the time I did not know of the present workshop, I did not organize the observations into a precise experimental design. At any rate, from them it is possible to infer that in the nonulcer dyspepsia problem there are two psychological components: (a) stress and emotional factors, and (b) personality variables.
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Farnè, M. (1994). Nonulcer Dyspepsia: Psychological Considerations. In: Gasbarrini, G., Pretolani, S. (eds) Basic and Clinical Aspects of Helicobacter pylori Infection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78231-2_2
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