• chronic (visceral) pain
• pain-related learning and memory processes
• psychobiological mechanisms in inflammatory bowel disease
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• functional MRI

Lanters LR, Öhlmann H, Langhorst J, Theysohn N, Engler H, Icenhour A*, Elsenbruch S* (2024). Disease-specific alterations in central fear network engagmement during acquisition and extinction of conditioned interoceptive fear in inflammatory bowel disease. Mol Psychiatry; May 27. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38802508/

Öhlmann, H, Lanters, LR, Theysohn, N, Langhorst, J, Engler, H, Icenhour, A, Elsenbruch, S (2023) Distinct alterations in central pain processing of visceral and somatic pain in quiescent ulcerative colitis compared to irritable bowel syndrome and health. J Crohns Colitis, 17(10), 1639–1651. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad080

Öhlmann, H, Koenen, LR, Labrenz, F, Engler, H, Theysohn, N, Langhorst, J, & Elsenbruch, S (2021) Altered brain structure in chronic visceral pain: specific differences in gray matter volume and associations with visceral symptoms and chronic stress. Front Neurol, 12, 733035. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.733035