Enteric Nervous System : The Brain-in-the-Gut (Colloquium Series on Integrated Systems Physiology)

Investigation of the normal and disordered enteric nervous system and its interactions with the central nervous system is a branch of neurogastroenterology. Neurogastroenterology is a scientific and clinical subspecialty of gastroenterology that deals with the neural mechanisms that influence function of the digestive tract and that underlie projection of conscious sensations to the gut.