Angstleren en de impact ervan op habituatie: Hoe aangeleerde angst voor niet-pijnlijke lichamelijke sensaties hun perceptuele habituatie verstoort

As a cardinal symptom of most functional gastrointestinal disorders, visceral pain and discomfort are very common and disabling. Unfortunately, such symptoms remain poorly understood and are hard to treat. There is a general consensus that fear towards gastrointestinal sensations may play an important role, but the mechanisms underlying such fear as well as its impact on visceral symptom perception are unclear. The project aims to elucidate these mechanisms, building on our previous work demonst