Urgency urinary incontinence and the interoceptive network: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Treatment of urgency urinary incontinence has focused on pharmacologically treating detrusor overactivity. Recent recognition that altered perception of internal stimuli (interoception) plays a role in urgency urinary incontinence suggests that exploration of abnormalities of brain function in this disorder could lead to better understanding of urgency incontinence and its treatment.

Objective

We sought to: (1) evaluate the relationship between bladder filling, perceived urgency, and activation at brain sites within the interoceptive network in urgency urinary incontinence; (2) identify coactivation of other brain networks that could affect interoception during bladder filling in urgency incontinence; and (3) demonstrate interaction between these sites prior to bl

SUBMITTER: Ketai LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5045785 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature