28. Februar - 2. März 2025

DGNM annual conference 2025

Innovative research, diagnostics and personalised therapy approaches: the next DGNM annual conference will take place in Berlin.

Studies on GI-motility with videofluoroscopy

The gut in motion

136 educational videos show a wide variety of intestinal movements and explain the basics of the regulation of gastric and intestinal motor functions.

Visit the YouTube channel "Gut in motion"

News

World IBS Day

More and more people - both worldwide and in Germany - are suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. A patient initiative has therefore proclaimed 19 April as World IBS Day to raise awareness of the condition.

Report Annual Meeting

30 lectures, a special symposium, two award winners and two travelling scholarship awardees - the 31st annual conference in Freising had a lot to offer!

Program of the annual meeting 2024

The program of the 2024 annual meeting in Freising is available for download in advance.

Cover motif 2024

Congratulations to Miriam Bittel, M.Sc. Molecular Sciences, Research Associate at the Clinic for Integrative Medicine and Naturopathy - Department of Science and Research at the Bamberg Social Foundation for winning this year's cover motif competition.

Award of the foundation Neurogastroenterologie 2023

The Neurogastroenterology foundation prize 2023 goes to our long-standing member Prof. Dr. Francois Cossais, Junior Professor at the Institute of Anatomy at Kiel University (CAU).

Congratulations

We congratulate Sophia Mayr, student and research assistant at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, on winning the ESNM Young Investigator Award for her abstract "Mechanosensitive enteric neurons in the guinea pig stomach".

About us

The German Society for Neurogastroenterology and Motility e.V. (DGNM) aims to support the exchange and development of the scientific understanding in neurogastroenterology and gastrointestinal motility. The members of the DGNM include scientists and physicians from basic research and clinical practice, who contribute to psycho-neurogastroenterological research in national scientific working groups and international specialist conferences.

The DGNM awards travel grants to enable students and junior faculty to attend international meetings.

Research

The main research focus of the society is neurogastroenterology, a field that deals with the innervation and regulation of the gastrointestinal tract and its functions. Dysfunctions of the enteric nervous system and the connection between microbiome, gut and brain (microbiome-gut-brain axis) can affect the gastrointestinal tract. Typical neurogastroenterological disease patterns are dysphagia, irritable stomach syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome or chronic abdominal pain. These clinical presentations are multifactorial and require interdisciplinary dignosis and treatment; therefore, psychosomatics also plays an important role in the DGNM.