The Second Brain
A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine

If you are planning to be a student of medicine or neuro-psychology, then you seriously might start with this book. Gershon shares his 30 years of research of the gut and its enteric nervous system in a detailed story account, which is technical but very readable to the interested student. It may no......more

The Author The author is not a gastroenterologist, but a neurobiologist, whose interest in the serotonin neurotransmitter took him down into the bowels of medicine. This book is a history of the development of the understanding of the intestinal nervous system, a history in which the author played a......more

This was a good book. The first half was very educational and really written for the non-scientist. The second half, however, started to drag. I suppose that there is really not a lot you can do to make the descriptions of cell migrations and genetic mutations readily accessible to the common folk.......more

Le ricerche sul Sistema Nervoso enterico risalgono agli anni '50, ma solo dagli '80, dopo un lungo periodo di disinteresse da parte della ricerca mondiale, alcuni scienziati, tra cui l'autore, riprendono gli studi affermando che nel nostro addome esiste un altro cervello. Il libro racconta in termini......more