REVIEWS IN BASIC AND CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY Neuroimaging of the Brain-Gut Axis: From Basic Understanding to Treatment of Functional GI Disorders
REVIEWS IN BASIC AND CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY Neuroimaging of the Brain-Gut Axis: From Basic Understanding to Treatment of Functional GI Disorders
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2006
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E. Mayer;David C. Metz;W. El-Deiry;Anil K Rustgi
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E. Mayer;David C. Metz;W. El-Deiry;Anil K Rustgi
Altered reflex and perceptual responses within the brain-gut axis have emerged as a generally accepted model to explain the cardinal symptoms of functional gastrointestinal (GI) syndromes. The ability to image the living human brain with various neuroimaging modalities has greatly enhanced our ability to study these brain gut interactions in health and disease. Reflex responses within the brain-gut axis, mediated by lamina I and vagal afferents, and efferents of the autonomic nervous system, play a crucial role in the maintenance of homeostasis during physiological perturbations caused by food intake, contractile activity, and metabolic products of the enteric flora. The insular cortex plays an important role in the conscious perception of all sensations arising from the body, while the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), with its connection to effector systems, mediates the affective response and motivational drive. The magnitude and gain of these processes is highly influenced by central arousal systems and top-down corticolimbic modulation, mediating the effect of environmental context, emotions, cognitions, and memories on perception and gut function. The majority of neuroimaging studies of the brain gut axis in humans are consistent with the model of parallel processing of afferent information in insula and dACC. Newer hypothesis driven studies, studying the differential contributions of afferent input, central arousal systems, and cortico-limbic pontine interactions have greatly contributed to our understanding of brain gut interactions in health and disease. fMRI‐mediated detection of changes in the activity and connectivity of brain regions involved in these different processes by pharmacological and behavioral therapies holds great promise for the development of novel approaches to functional GI disorders.