Juliane Schwille-Kiuntke

TL;DR: The past decade has seen remarkable progress in the understanding of functional bowel disorders such as IBS that will be summarized in this Primer.

TL;DR: This narrative review explores four aspects of the placebo response in children and adolescents, the legal and ethical limitations and restrictions for the inclusion of children in clinical trials as well as in experimental (placebo) research, and whether the mechanisms underlying the placebo effect are similar between children and adults.

TL;DR: The burden of burnout among medical students underlines the need to control for context-dependent confounders in research on medical students’ mental health impairment to enable more meaningful comparisons and adequate prevention strategies.

TL;DR: Gastrointestinal infections have been proposed to predict subsequent irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but large‐scale infectious events are rare and long‐term data are missing.

TL;DR: Gastrointestinal infection is known as a risk factor for the development of the irritable bowel syndrome (post‐infectious irritable Bowel Syndrome, PI‐IBS).