Abstract
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, interacting with every other major organ system to continuously maintain homeostasis. Thus it is not surprising that the brain also interacts with our microbiota, the trillions of bacteria and other organisms inhabiting the ecosystem of the human being. As we gather knowledge about the way that our microbiota interact with their local environments, there is also increasing interest in their communication with the brain.
Keywords
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Fractional Anisotropy
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- Blood Oxygen Level Dependent
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- BOLD:
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Blood oxygen level dependent
- DTI:
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Diffusion tensor imaging
- FA:
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Fractional anisotropy
- fMRI:
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- GABA:
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid
- HPA:
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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
- MGBA:
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Microbe-gut-brain axis
- MRI:
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Magnetic resonance imaging
- PET:
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Positron emission tomography
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Tillisch, K., Labus, J.S. (2014). Neuroimaging the Microbiome-Gut–Brain Axis. In: Lyte, M., Cryan, J. (eds) Microbial Endocrinology: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Health and Disease. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 817. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0897-4_18
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