Chang Lab News

Yale research suggests that several neurodegerative diseases may originate not in the nervous system, but in the gut microbiome.

“This is the first time we actually know how different body signals are being represented through the vagal interoception system to the brain in a very precise and accurate manner,” says co-senior investigator Rui Chang, PhD. “We know that the brain can very precisely discriminate signals, but what is the biological reason for that discrimination?”