Evidence for the role of the brain-gut axis in inflammatory bowel disease: depression as cause and effect?

Gastroenterology. 2009 Jun;136(7):2058-61. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.04.032. Epub 2009 May 3.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / physiology
  • Depressive Disorder / drug therapy
  • Depressive Disorder / psychology*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Gastrointestinal Tract / innervation
  • Gastrointestinal Tract / physiology*
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / psychology*
  • Mice
  • Risk Factors
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Visceral Afferents / physiology