MRI shows how stimulation helps digestive disorders
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2018-10-24

More than 60 million people in the U.S. suffer from disorders in the gastrointestinal tract that could be cured by electrical stimulation, but scientists don't fully understand the therapy's effects on the stomach.
Purdue University researchers used an MRI to show a play-by-play of how sending an electric impulse to the vagus nerve successfully corrects stomach complications. The technique paves the way for more precise treatment that drugs and dietary changes have not achieved.

Featured Purdue Researchers: 
Kun-Han "Tom" Lu, Ph.D. student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhongming Liu, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The work was supported in part by SPARC (Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions) project, an initiative of the National Institutes of Health to map out the stomach's neural circuitry.  It was published as the cover of the journal Neurogastroenterology and Motility for its October 2018 issue. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13380

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