Hey butt brain: You're reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a brain in your butt? OK, not a literal brain

badbobby Loc: texas

You're reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a brain in your butt?

OK, not a literal brain — more of an autonomous matrix of millions of neurons that can, somehow, control intestinal muscle movements without any help from your central nervous system. And these neurons don't actually live in your butt, but they do live in your colon, or large intestine — that tube-like organ that connects the small intestine to the rectum and shepherds what remains of the food you ate through the final leg of the digestive tract.

Scientists call this site of colon intelligence your enteric nervous system, and because it can function without instructions from the brain or spine, some scientists like to call it your "second brain." How smart is this autonomous, intestinal brain? Scientists don't know for sure yet. But according to a new study in mice, published May 29 in the journal JNeurosci, the answer might be pretty smart for an intestine.

"The enteric nervous system (ENS) contains millions of neurons essential for organization of behavior of the intestine," wrote the team of researchers from Australia who observed the so-called second brain hard at work using a combination of high-precision neuronal imaging techniques.

When the researchers stimulated isolated mouse colons with mild electric shocks, they saw "a novel pattern of rhythmic coordinated neuronal firing" that corresponded directly to muscle movements in nearby sections of the large intestine.

These rhythmic, synchronized blasts of neuron activity likely help to stimulate specific sections of intestinal muscles at a standard rate, the researchers wrote. This ensures that colonic muscle contractions — also known as "colonic migrating motor complexes" — keep fecal matter moving in the right direction (out of the body, that is), and at a steady pace.

"This revealed that activity in the ENS can temporally coordinate [muscle] activity over significant distances along the length of [the] colon," the team wrote.

According to the researchers, similar synchronized neuron routines are also common in the early stages of brain development. This could mean that the pattern they identified in the colon is a "primordial property" held over from the early stages of the enteric nervous system's evolution.

But it could be even more important than that: Because some scientists hypothesize the enteric nervous system actually evolved before the central nervous system, the neuron firing pattern in your colon might represent the earliest functioning brain in your body. Yes, that would mean the brain in your butt could actually be your "first brain," not your "second brain." If this is true, you could say mammalian brains evolved first to move poop, and then to take care of more complex business.

However, this is the first time such a neuron-firing pattern has ever been detected in the colon, and so far, it's been found only in mice. The researchers are confident that their findings could apply to other mammals, too. But a clearer understanding of the enteric nervous system's power in humans will require further study — and lots of serious thinking from both brains.

Originally published on Live Science.

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

You're reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a brain in your butt?

OK, not a literal brain — more of an autonomous matrix of millions of neurons that can, somehow, control intestinal muscle movements without any help from your central nervous system. And these neurons don't actually live in your butt, but they do live in your colon, or large intestine — that tube-like organ that connects the small intestine to the rectum and shepherds what remains of the food you ate through the final leg of the digestive tract.

Scientists call this site of colon intelligence your enteric nervous system, and because it can function without instructions from the brain or spine, some scientists like to call it your "second brain." How smart is this autonomous, intestinal brain? Scientists don't know for sure yet. But according to a new study in mice, published May 29 in the journal JNeurosci, the answer might be pretty smart for an intestine.

"The enteric nervous system (ENS) contains millions of neurons essential for organization of behavior of the intestine," wrote the team of researchers from Australia who observed the so-called second brain hard at work using a combination of high-precision neuronal imaging techniques.

When the researchers stimulated isolated mouse colons with mild electric shocks, they saw "a novel pattern of rhythmic coordinated neuronal firing" that corresponded directly to muscle movements in nearby sections of the large intestine.

These rhythmic, synchronized blasts of neuron activity likely help to stimulate specific sections of intestinal muscles at a standard rate, the researchers wrote. This ensures that colonic muscle contractions — also known as "colonic migrating motor complexes" — keep fecal matter moving in the right direction (out of the body, that is), and at a steady pace.

"This revealed that activity in the ENS can temporally coordinate [muscle] activity over significant distances along the length of [the] colon," the team wrote.

According to the researchers, similar synchronized neuron routines are also common in the early stages of brain development. This could mean that the pattern they identified in the colon is a "primordial property" held over from the early stages of the enteric nervous system's evolution.

But it could be even more important than that: Because some scientists hypothesize the enteric nervous system actually evolved before the central nervous system, the neuron firing pattern in your colon might represent the earliest functioning brain in your body. Yes, that would mean the brain in your butt could actually be your "first brain," not your "second brain." If this is true, you could say mammalian brains evolved first to move poop, and then to take care of more complex business.

However, this is the first time such a neuron-firing pattern has ever been detected in the colon, and so far, it's been found only in mice. The researchers are confident that their findings could apply to other mammals, too. But a clearer understanding of the enteric nervous system's power in humans will require further study — and lots of serious thinking from both brains.

Originally published on Live Science.

You're reading these words because you have a brai... (show quote)

Now that should give you something to dwell on on your next
fishing trip. Please write your paper and hand it in on the day
following your next fishing trip. Dies the brain move the poop
or does the ENS move the poop and why for your choice.

pafret Loc: Northeast

badbobby wrote:

You're reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a brain in your butt?

OK, not a literal brain — more of an autonomous matrix of millions of neurons that can, somehow, control intestinal muscle movements without any help from your central nervous system. And these neurons don't actually live in your butt, but they do live in your colon, or large intestine — that tube-like organ that connects the small intestine to the rectum and shepherds what remains of the food you ate through the final leg of the digestive tract.

Scientists call this site of colon intelligence your enteric nervous system, and because it can function without instructions from the brain or spine, some scientists like to call it your "second brain." How smart is this autonomous, intestinal brain? Scientists don't know for sure yet. But according to a new study in mice, published May 29 in the journal JNeurosci, the answer might be pretty smart for an intestine.

"The enteric nervous system (ENS) contains millions of neurons essential for organization of behavior of the intestine," wrote the team of researchers from Australia who observed the so-called second brain hard at work using a combination of high-precision neuronal imaging techniques.

When the researchers stimulated isolated mouse colons with mild electric shocks, they saw "a novel pattern of rhythmic coordinated neuronal firing" that corresponded directly to muscle movements in nearby sections of the large intestine.

These rhythmic, synchronized blasts of neuron activity likely help to stimulate specific sections of intestinal muscles at a standard rate, the researchers wrote. This ensures that colonic muscle contractions — also known as "colonic migrating motor complexes" — keep fecal matter moving in the right direction (out of the body, that is), and at a steady pace.

"This revealed that activity in the ENS can temporally coordinate [muscle] activity over significant distances along the length of [the] colon," the team wrote.

According to the researchers, similar synchronized neuron routines are also common in the early stages of brain development. This could mean that the pattern they identified in the colon is a "primordial property" held over from the early stages of the enteric nervous system's evolution.

But it could be even more important than that: Because some scientists hypothesize the enteric nervous system actually evolved before the central nervous system, the neuron firing pattern in your colon might represent the earliest functioning brain in your body. Yes, that would mean the brain in your butt could actually be your "first brain," not your "second brain." If this is true, you could say mammalian brains evolved first to move poop, and then to take care of more complex business.

However, this is the first time such a neuron-firing pattern has ever been detected in the colon, and so far, it's been found only in mice. The researchers are confident that their findings could apply to other mammals, too. But a clearer understanding of the enteric nervous system's power in humans will require further study — and lots of serious thinking from both brains.

Originally published on Live Science.

You're reading these words because you have a brai... (show quote)

This gives a whole new aspect on the phrases "S**t for brains" for a stupid person and "Full of S**t" for total retards! It speaks volumes about which brain is in use by some of OPP's rabid liberals.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

You Mean Are Brains Aren't Only Left And Right ??

wolffy

I thought that it was called a separator?

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Why do I need to know this? Only my doc pushes things the wrong way in my colon, and only once a year, what really ticks me off is having to pay for it. The good thing is my doc is a woman.

badbobby Loc: texas

Peewee wrote:

Why do I need to know this? Only my doc pushes things the wrong way in my colon, and only once a year, what really ticks me off is having to pay for it. The good thing is my doc is a woman.

what I don't understand is
why that well known poop expert Slatten hasn't appeared on this thread

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

badbobby wrote:

what I don't understand is
why that well known poop expert Slatten hasn't appeared on this thread

Maybe he is on his enamel thrown testing if his big brain can override the disconnected brain and in case the disconnected brain ever malfunctions. Also, where is Poppa Gringo? I'm starting to become a little worried. He has been missing in action too long. What's the longest Admin has ever banned anyone?

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

what I don't understand is
why that well known poop expert Slatten hasn't appeared on this thread

He changed his avatar to that stupid beard one and he is probably afraid of you.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

bahmer wrote:

He changed his avatar to that stupid beard one and he is probably afraid of you.

Did he change his handle? Pop always gave me thumbs up? Why would anyone but Kev and a few others be afraid of little ole me?

badbobby Loc: texas

Peewee wrote:

Maybe he is on his enamel thrown testing if his bi... (show quote)

Peewee
you just confused Slat the pooper now he will sit for hours(you know where)
pondering why he poops,and what causes it

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

Peewee
you just confused Slat the pooper now he will sit for hours(you know where)
pondering why he poops,and what causes it

Slats life has just taken on meaning.

badbobby Loc: texas

bahmer wrote:

Slats life has just taken on meaning.

then between us
we have done a good deed

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

then between us
we have done a good deed

Will he appreciate us? Nah not Slats.

badbobby Loc: texas

bahmer wrote:

Will he appreciate us? Nah not Slats.

Slat,being a Marine
considers himself perfect
now why would he even consider our modest efforts
to improve his life??