Topic: stomach-brain coupling

Pioneering research on brain-body interactions has revealed the existence of functional coupling between the rhythmic activity of the stomach and brain. While major breakthroughs support a pivotal role of the gut in psychopathology, the mental health implications of this recently discovered stomach-brain axis are unknown. We hypothesised that stomach-brain coupling in transdiagnostic cortical networks would index individual differences in mental health, in particular with anxiogenic factors. We estimated stomach-brain coupling by combining functional brain imaging with electrogastrography in t