Talk by Dr. Ivan de Araujo, Yale School of Medicine
The gut-brain axis and reward
- Datum: 05.02.2018
- Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
- Vortragende(r): Ivan de Araujo, DPhil
- Fellow, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
- Ort: MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln
- Raum: Seminar room 1
- Gastgeber: Dr. Marc Tittgemeyer
- Kontakt: marc.tittgemeyer@sf.mpg.de
Visceral organs have long been believed to act as major regulators of emotional state. However, the specific role of gut-borne signals in motivated behavior remains elusive to this day. The talk will describe the connectivity and behavioral functions of a neural circuit that links gut sensory neurons to brain reward systems. Implications for our current ideas on the role of the gut-brain axis will be discussed.