The Interoceptive System, Viscerosomatic Integration, and Systemic Inflammation Disease

Programme

Day 1

• Introduction - Interoception and the integration of the somatic and visceral sensory systems
• Fundamentals of the Interoceptive Nervous System
• The Interoceptive nervous system
• Case Study: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Fikree & Byrne 2021, Ford et al 2020b, Mayer 2008)
• Autonomic Nervous System
• Visceral Sensory System and Referred Pain
• Systemic Inflammation and Visceral Afferent Fiber Hypersensitivity
• Case Study – Functional Dyspepsia (Fikree & Byrne 2021, Ford et al 2020a, Oshima 2024)
• Forms of viscerosomatic integration and their diagnostic application

Day 2 PM

• Somatosomatic Reflex
• Somatovisceral Reflex
• Case Study – Dysmenorrhea (Stoelting-Gettelfinger 2010)
• Viscerosomatic Reflexes
• Explanation of the somatic body wall changes due to visceral dysfunction – diagnostic principals
• Cross-sensitization Theory
• Viscerovisceral Reflexes
• Case Study – Cystitis (Warren 2014, Warren et al 2014)
• Summary: The interoceptive system and integration between the somatic and visceral systems of the body