Amanda L. Sherman

TL;DR: Patients with FAP carry long-term vulnerability to anxiety that begins in childhood and persists into late adolescence and early adulthood, even if abdominal pain resolves.

TL;DR: In laboratory pain testing at follow‐up, high pain dysfunctional patients showed significantly greater thermal wind‐up than low pain adaptive patients, suggesting that a subgroup of FAP patients has outcomes consistent with widespread effects of heightened central sensitization.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the API, using the revised scoring method, is a useful, reliable, and valid measure of abdominal pain severity.

TL;DR: Developmental differences in the structure of a widely used measure of caregiver responses to chronic pain or pain-related chronic illness in youth are examined to suggest that revised structures that differ across developmental groups can be used with youth with a range of clinical pain- related conditions.

TL;DR: Assessing for trauma history in patients with FGIDs could identify a subset at risk for greater central sensitization and pain-related symptoms.