The brain and the gut talk to each other: how fixing one could help the other
- Written by Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Deakin University
People with chronic bowel conditions may need to use the toilet 20 to 30 times a day.daveynin/Flickr, CC BYIt’s widely recognised that emotions can directly affect stomach function. As early as 1915, influential physiologist Walter Cannon noted that stomach functions are changed in animals when frightened. The same is true for humans. Those...
