Mind-body (hypnotherapy) treatment of women with urgency urinary incontinence: changes in brain attentional networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior study of patients with urgency urinary incontinence by functional magnetic resonance imaging showed altered function in areas of the brain associated with interoception and salience and with attention. Our randomized controlled trial of hypnotherapy for urgency urinary incontinence demonstrated marked improvement in urgency urinary incontinence symptoms at 2 months. A subsample of these women with urgency urinary incontinence underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging before and after treatment.

Objective

This study aimed to determine if hypnotherapy treatment of urgency urinary incontinence compared with pharmacotherapy was associated with altered brain activation or resting connectivity on functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Study design

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SUBMITTER: Ketai LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10739935 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature