"A body–brain circuit that regulates body inflammatory responses"

[Marylib]

Sounds familiar?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07469-y
Here is an article discussing:
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/scientists-just-made-a-stunning-biological

 

[Dysfunkion]

This actually is really big, the problem like this article states. Funding. It'll be interesting in the future when we have more information on how specific compounds effect that circuit because there may be a lot of clues there on the reason why we respond to certain things the way we do that any other system can't currently explain.

 

[datadragon]

This area has been studied before such as this paper.

The body and brain are in constant two‐way communication. Driving this communication is a region in the lower brainstem: the dorsal vagal complex. Within the dorsal vagal complex, the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract (cNTS) is a major first stop for incoming information from the body to the brain carried by the vagus nerve. The anatomy of this region makes it ideally positioned to respond to signals of change in both emotional and bodily states. In turn, the cNTS controls the activity of regions throughout the brain that are involved in the control of both behaviour and physiology.

Then, I discuss one group of cNTS neurons: glucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1)‐expressing neurons. GLP‐1 neurons serve as a good example of a group of cNTS neurons, which receive input from varied sources and have the ability to modulate both behaviour and physiology.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286632/

 

[annaloecher]

It’s huge!! So excited for the research to come.