ReviewNature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology2018
Behavioural medicine and gastrointestinal disorders: the promise of positive psychology.
Review in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Biopsychosocial and Environmental Factors That Impact Brain-Gut-Microbiome Interactions in Obesity.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026Pooled it
- AGA Clinical Practice Update on Functional Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Expert Review.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2019Guideline
- Positive psychological well-being and clinical characteristics in IBS: A systematic review.General hospital psychiatryPooled it
- A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial of a Positive Psychology Intervention for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The WISH Proof-of-Concept Trial.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2025Trial
- The WISH 2.0 Intervention for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Association between gastrointestinal diseases and depression severity among middle-aged and older Chinese women: the mediating effect of sleep duration.BMC psychiatry · 2026Observational
- Psychogastroenterology of cyclic vomiting syndrome: A crucial need to build evidence.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Review
- Initial development and validation of a disease-specific resilience measure for inflammatory bowel disease: the RISE-IBD instrument.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- The influence of gut microbiota on the gut-brain-kidney axis and its implications for chronic kidney disease.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Narrative Review.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Review
- Positive affect longitudinally buffers the negative effect of health anxiety on gastrointestinal symptoms.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2024Article
- Pleasurable and problematic receptive anal intercourse and diseases of the colon, rectum and anus.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2024Review
- Investigating resilience in patients with IBD: preliminary insights for understanding disease-specific resilience skills.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Irritable bowel syndrome and mental health comorbidity - approach to multidisciplinary management.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2023Review
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Resilience.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Positive psychological well-being: A novel concept for improving symptoms, quality of life, and health behaviors in irritable bowel syndrome.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2023Article
- Intraoperative Low-Dose S-Ketamine Reduces Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Crohn's Disease Undergoing Bowel Resection: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Depression and anxiety in inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology, mechanisms and treatment.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2022Review
- Childhood constipation: Current status, challenges, and future perspectives.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2022Article
- Transitions from pediatric to adult IBD care: Incorporating lessons from psychogastroenterology.Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Psychosocial risk factors linked to brain-gut dysregulation are prevalent across the spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders and are associated with poor patient outcomes. Robust and reproducible data in the areas of behavioural intervention science and the brain-gut axis have led to major advances in patient care, including the routine use of brain-gut psychotherapies to manage digestive symptoms and optimize coping. The logical next step for the emerging field of psychogastroenterology is to develop a scientific framework that enables the identification of those individual characteristics and coping styles that buffer patients against the negative psychological effects of chronic gastrointestinal disorders. A shift towards a strength-based, positive psychological science of gastrointestinal disorders could facilitate the integration of early, effective psychological care into gastroenterology practice. In this Perspective, I discuss the potential role of three human strengths with relevance to gastrointestinal health - resilience, optimism and self-regulation - and how these three constructs can be cultivated through existing or emerging brain-gut psychotherapies.
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