Volume 1 ; Issue 1 ; in Month : Jan-June (2017) Article No : 102
Mina T. Kelleni

Abstract

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was shown to be far more frequent in patients with epilepsy compared with that in healthy controls; 16% in patients with epilepsy and 3% in controls. The so-called brain-gut axis has recently been demonstrated to be crucial for the maintenance of cognitive performance and abnormal interaction in this axis has been shown to be one of the relevant pathophysiological mechanisms for the development of IBS. Similarly, Nikiforova in 2014, and after comparing epileptic EEG patterns and colonic contractile electrical complexes, has hypothesized that peripherally organized electrographic patterns associated with stress induced gut symptoms actively participate in creating epileptic susceptibility.

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