The aim of this study is to verify the response of auricular skin to interoceptive stimuli in two groups of patients suffering from a gastroenteral pathology.

Patients were submitted to a complete examination of auricle, in order to detect morphological alterations and painful points, and to a diagnostic digestive endoscopy.

A group of patients took benzodiazepines at the moment of auricular examination; the second group did not take any drug. Leggi tutto...