MBDC Blog

This MBDC Blog will focus on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and other Functional Gastro-Intestinal Disorders (FGID) and is different from many other blogs that relate to those conditions. It is edited by two very experienced professionals who have taken care of patients with IBS and FGID for a number of years. In addition to patient care, they have been very active in the areas of research and education, have co-authored a number of research publications and been invited speakers at national and international meetings.

Our blogs will discuss recent research findings, reports in the media, personal observations and occasional contributions from other experts in this field. If research articles are discussed, we will provide a link to those articles for those interested in reading them in full. Please join us.
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Hypnotherapy and Imagery

By Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D.
At the Mind-Body Digestive Center, we have found that our group hypnotherapy program has been very successful in reducing IBS symptoms in our patients. This blog entry describes a recent…
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Why can’t doctors and patients understand each other?

By Dr. Charles Gerson
Research demonstrates a serious communication gap between patients with functional GI illness like IBS and their physicians who tend to underestimate how much patients are suffering.
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