![]() Of the 200 IBS outpatients screened, 26 (13%) patients and six (3%) controls claimed to be synesthetic (P < 0.001). Positive responders were tested for two types of synesthesia (grapheme-color and music-color/shape) using a questionnaire which was repeated after 3 months to test for reproducibility. Two hundred consecutive IBS outpatients were screened for synesthesia and compared with 200 matched healthy volunteers (controls). ![]() The purpose of this exploratory study was to ascertain whether these two conditions might be linked in any way. Disordered perception of sensory information also appears to contribute to the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). ![]() Synesthesia is a sensory disorder where the stimulation of one sensory modality can lead to a reaction in another which would not usually be expected to respond for instance, someone might see a color on hearing a word such as a day of the week. ![]()
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