How the stomach and the brain work together at rest

Giuseppina Porciello; Alessandro Monti; Salvatore Maria Aglioti

doi:10.7554/eLife.37009

How the stomach and the brain work together at rest

Elife. 2018 May 4:7:e37009. doi: 10.7554/eLife.37009.

Authors

Giuseppina Porciello^{1

2}, Alessandro Monti^{1

2}, Salvatore Maria Aglioti^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

Low-frequency electrical waves in the stomach seem to be synchronised with the activity of a newly discovered resting-state network in the human brain.

Keywords: body maps; gastric network; gastric rhythm; human; neuroscience; phase synchrony; resting-state networks.

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MeSH terms

Brain
Brain Mapping*
Humans
Neural Pathways*
Rest
Stomach