Where is Pavlov when we really need him??
> You know how people are always telling you your brains are in your
> behind? Well, they could be right. Check out this instalment of
> mystery neuroscientist's newsletter.
>
> (I wasn't going to make a habit of these posts. But I found this so
> interesting yet off-the-wall I had to share it.)
>
> -Stephen
>
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> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 05:27:37 -0800
> From: Mystery neuroscientist
> Subject: BioPsych/ Neurogastroenterology
>
> U.S. News & World Report
> Science & Ideas 4/3/00
>
> The wisdom of the gut Those butterflies in your stomach are not just in your mind
>
> By Rachel K. Sobel
>
> For reasons that still mystify researchers today, the stunning results
> of this experiment went into hibernation for nearly half a century and
> are only now receiving fresh validation. Indeed, no one in medicine
> paid attention again until a fledgling neurobiologist began touting
> its clinical value in 1965. "The idea that the gut can be operating
> its own nervous system was shocking," recalls Michael Gershon, now
> chair of the department of anatomy and cell biology at Columbia
> University and author of The Second Brain, a 1998 account of the
> acceptance of this scientific idea. Since the 1980s, Gershon's
> colleagues have zealously embraced the notion of "the little brain in
> the gut," as it's affectionately known. "What Mother Nature had done,
> rather than packing all of those neurons in the big brain in the skull
> and sending long lines to the gut, is distribute the microcomputer,
> the little brain, right along with the gut," says Jackie Wood, a
> neurobiologist at Ohio State University.
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