The Second Brain: The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct & a Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach & Intest Paperback - 1999
by Michael Gershon
A remarkable book of scientific discovery, revealing how the intensive concentration of nerve cells in our gut--our second brain--was forgotten and how its rediscovery is transforming modern medicine. Illustrations.
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Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon's work has led to radical new understandings about a wide range of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, nervous stomach, and irritable bowel syndrome. The Second Brain represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and is already benefiting patients whose symptoms were previously dismissed as neurotic or "it's all in your head."
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- Title The Second Brain: The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct & a Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach & Intest
- Author Michael Gershon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing U
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scarborough, On, Canada
- Date 1999-11-17
- ISBN 9780060930721 / 0060930721
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.3 x 0.79 in (20.37 x 13.46 x 2.01 cm)
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- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Gastrointestinal system - Innervation, Autonomic ganglia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98028577
- Dewey Decimal Code 612.32
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