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Psychosomatic Medicine 24:170-176 (1962)
© 1962 American Psychosomatic Society

Measuring the Effect of Emotions on Esophageal Motility

JESSE RUBIN M.D.1, RICHARD NAGLER M.D.1, HOWARD M. SPIRO M.D.1, and MARTIN L. PILOT M.D.1

1 Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

A preliminary study of the relationship between emotional state and esophageal motor function was undertaken. The study involved recording esophageal motility during unstructured psychiatric interviews. A significant relationship between affectively charged material and nonpropulsive activity in the esophagus was consistently found in 2 of 5 subjects and, during some interviews, in other subjects. The method is feasible and reproducible.

Submitted on January 27, 1961




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