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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYour gut is your "second brain" - Interesting
Using a newly developed imaging technique, a team of researchers in Australia has directly observed a unique neural motor firing pattern outside of the brain or central nervous system. The pattern of neuronal firing, in the intestine, showed exactly how our enteric nervous system coordinates contractions in our gastrointestinal tract.
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a massive mesh of neurons located in our gastrointestinal tract. Its the largest collection of neurons found in the body outside of the brain, and because of its ability to operate entirely independently it has often been referred to as our second brain.
It is only recently that science has begun to seriously look at how this so-called second brain actually functions. While we have countless studies correlating neuronal firing in the brain with assorted physical actions, there has been little examination into how neuronal firing in the ENS results in intestinal muscle activity.
http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/index.php/unique-neuronal-firing-patterns-in-our-second-brain-observed-for-the-first-time/#more-463209
https://www.livescience.com/62683-colon-brain-neuron-firing-pattern-detected.html
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Your gut is your "second brain" - Interesting (Original Post)
packman
Jun 2018
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True Dough
(17,396 posts)1. OMG!
I've been inundating my "second brain" with date squares and banana bread! Oh well, I'm feeding my mind, I suppose.
lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)3. reminds me of what my brother in law... the ER doc... told me 40 years ago
we watched a bird swoop down and eat a bug right in front of us... then, as the bird flew away, it crapped right on the roof of our car.
"One bug in, one bug out... it's the perfect example of the involuntary gut response" he exclaimed.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)4. If my gut is my second braiin, I must very smart
Because I have a lot of "brain tissue" there.
packman
(16,296 posts)5. I just spent two days with my gut
and some oysters that were arguing that I shouldn't be alive or at least 10 feet from a bathroom.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)6. I guess Bush was wiser than we knew.
eShirl
(18,511 posts)7. that's why Trump's such a clown
it's his inner Ronald McDonald
GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)8. I have gerd, colitis, and am bipolar. There seems to be a
higher incidence of mental illness among folks with GI conditions.