A Perspective on Brain-Gut Communication: The American Gastroenterology Association and American Psychosomatic Society Joint Symposium on Brain-Gut Interactions and the Intestinal Microenvironment

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 847-856

  Aroniadis, Olga C ^a   Drossman, Douglas A ^a,b,c,d   Simrén, Magnus ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Joan and Sanford I Weill Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Drossman Gastroenterology PLLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

brain gut communication; metabolomics; metaproteomics; metatranscriptomics; microbiota; probiotics

Indexed keywords

PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BRAIN GUT COMMUNICATION; DIET; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES COMPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINAL MICROENVIRONMENT; INTESTINE FLORA; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; BRAIN; GASTROENTEROLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOSOMATICS; UNITED STATES;

BRAIN; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85002251313     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000431     Document Type: Review

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