Behavioral Neuroscience Area, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Vagal innervation of the stomach reassessed: brain-gut connectome uses smart terminals.

Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Brain-gut neural communications have long been considered limited because of conspicuous numerical mismatches. The vagus, the parasympathetic nerve connecting brain and gut, contains thousands of axons, whereas the gastrointestinal (GI) tract contains millions of intrinsic neurons in local plexuses. The numerical paradox was initially recognized in...