While my time in the office is steeped in talk of brain science, when I head home after work I like to decompress by watching some of my favorite TV funnymen like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Imagine my surprise when The Colbert Report cut to snippets from a lecture about the “gut brain” that [...]
Tags: gut brain, heribert watzke, second brain, stephen colbert
Posted May 9, 2011 by MacLean Fitzgerald under Odds and Ends
About 9 months ago, we wrote about the “second brain” in your gut–the mass of neurons found in your intestine that you may not have even known about. In this talk, from food scientist Heribert Watzke, explains why evolutionarily we have this second brain in our gut, what it means, and what it does. It [...]
Tags: gut, intestines, limbic system, neurons, peripheral nervous system, second brain
Posted November 10, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience
There was an intriguing article in Scientific American last week called “Think Twice: How the Gut’s ‘Second Brain’ Influences Mood and Well-Being.” Although I work at a neuroscience company, I was unfamiliar with the “second brain.” It turns out it’s a mass of tissue in our intestines that shares many qualities with our brains–millions of [...]
Tags: central nervous system, neurology, peripheral nervous system, second brain
Posted February 22, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Odds and Ends, Research studies
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