Emeran Mayer

Dr. Emeran A. Mayer has been studying brain-body interactions for over 40 years, with an emphasis on brain-gut interactions. He is the executive director of... Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience and co-director of Center for Research on Digestive Diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health in the United States for the past 25 years, and he is considered a pioneer and world leader in the areas of brain-gut-microbiome interactions and chronic visceral pain. He has published over 400 scientific articles and received numerous awards, including the prize Paul D MacLean, in 2016, of American Psychosomatic Society and the medal Ismar Boas, in 2017, from the German Society of Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases. His work has been referenced in publications such as Scientific American, New York Times, Guardian, among others. He currently lives in Los Angeles. The book The Brain-Gut Connection became a bestseller It is a worldwide phenomenon and has already been translated into more than 15 languages.