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A new study from the BIDMC Institute for Gut-Brain Research adds to a growing body of evidence that Parkinson’s disease, long believed to have its origins in the brain, may begin in the gut. Gastrointestinal problems are common in patients with neurodegenerative disorders, to the point where a...

Chethan Ramprasad, MD, joined our group in October 2023. He attended college at Rice University and medical school at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He completed his training in Internal Medicine at NYU Langone and his GI fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical...

From Neuroscience News/BIDMC: Previously, scientists believed that the enteric nervous system (ENS) development stopped before birth. However, recent findings by Subhash Kulkarni and colleagues overturn this by showing ENS development continues after birth in mice and humans. The study reveals a...

We had a great time attending the ACG 2024 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA this week. Huge congratulations to Vikram Rangan, MD, who won the Presidential Poster Award for his work on A Pilot Study of Crofelemer for Functional Diarrhea! Crofelemer—an anti-secretory, anti-diarrheal drug—was...