The stomach-brain axis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 967-979

  Holtmann, Gerald ^a   Talley, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain gut interactions; Functional gastrointestinal disorders; Inflammation; Microbiome; Stomach; Stress

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CALORIC INTAKE; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSPEPSIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INNERVATION; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRECUNEUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUTAMEN; SATIETY; SHAM FEEDING; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNCTION; THALAMUS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; INNERVATION; MICROFLORA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH;

EID: 84925227335     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: 15321916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2014.10.001     Document Type: Review

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