Talk:Emeran Mayer

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Emeran Anton Mayer (born July 26, 1950 in Traunstein, Germany) is a gastroenterologist, lecturer, author, editor, neuroscientist, documentary filmmaker and a distinguished research professor in the Departments of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a pioneer of medical research into brain-gut interactions

Early years

Mayer became interested in mind–brain–body interactions in health and chronic disease as a college student, which inspired his decision to go to medical school at Ludwig Maximilian University Medical School. His interest in documentary filmmaking galvanized this fascination and resulted in his journeys to the Yanomami tribes in the Orinoco region and the Asmat people in Irian Jaya. There, he filmed and studied native healers while exploring his vision that the interactions between the gut and the brain transcend culture and time.

Career

Mayer's research career began at the Institute of Physiology in Munich, with a summa cum laude dissertation on the mechanisms by which the brain affects coronary blood flow in the heart during psychological stress. After moving to the US, he completed his specialty training as a gastroenterologist at UCLA and from then on focused his work on basic, translational, and clinical aspects of brain-gut interactions (reference 6). He has over 40 years of experience studying clinical and neurobiological aspects of how the digestive and nervous systems interact in health and disease. In the United States, Mayer's research has continuously been funded by federal grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.

Mayer is a Distinguished Research Professor, Executive Director of the Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress, and Founding Director of the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center at UCLA. He has published over 440 scientific papers (h-index 135), co-edited 3 scientific books, and published 3 books for the lay public. He is the recipient of the 2016 David McLean award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the 2017 Ismar Boas Medal from the German Society of Gastroenterology and Metabolic Disease.

In addition to his longstanding research into the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome (reference 7,8), Mayer has researched Alzheimer's disease, Autism spectrum disorder (reference 9), food addiction, obesity and ulcerative colitis. His research efforts into these brain-gut diseases have been closely linked to his strong belief in the One Health concept, which closely links individual health, with health of the gut microbiome, soil microbiome, and health of the planet.

Mayer has a longstanding interest in ancient healing traditions. He has personally practiced different mind-based strategies, including Zen meditation, Ericksonian hypnosis, and autogenic training. His treatment approach to patients is based on an integrative medicine concept of the close bidirectional interactions between the mind, brain, body and environment.

Books

·       Basic And Clinical Aspects Of Chronic Abdominal Pain New York: Elsevier, 1993. ISBN 978-0444894373

·       The Biological Basis Of Mind Body Interactions Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 122, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2000.

·       Functional Chronic Pain Syndromes: Similarities And Differences In Clinical Presentation And Pathophysiology Seattle, IASP Press, 2009

·       The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood HarperCollins, 2016.

·       The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding Why We are Sick Can Help Us Regain Our Health HarperCollins, 2021

·       The Mind-Gut-Immune Connection: Understanding How Food Impacts Our Mind, Our Microbiome, and Our Immunity HarperCollins, 2023

·       Interconnected Plates: A Mediterranean-Inspired Gut Healthy Cookbook, 2023

Movies

·       In Search of Balance, 2018. Associate Producer

·       The Brain-Gut Connection with Dr. Emeran Mayer (PBS), 2023. Director

Personal life

Mayer has had a lifelong passion for mountaineering and has climbed Aconcagua in Argentina, Cimborazzo and Cotopaxi in Ecuador, Pico de Orizaba in Mexico, and Denali in Alaska.

Mayer lives in Topanga, California. He is married to Minou Mayer and has one son, E. Dylan Mayer.

References

1.      Mayer EA, Baldi JP. Can regulatory peptides be regarded as words of a biological language. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 261:G171-G184, 1991

2.      Mayer EA. Clinical Perspectives: Irritable bowel syndrome. NEJM 358:1692-9, 2008

3.      Rhee SH, Pothoulakis C, Mayer EA. Principles and clinical implications of the brain-gut-enteric microbiota axis. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 6:306-14, 2009

4.      Mayer EA. Gut feelings: the emerging biology of gut-brain communication. Nat Rev Neurosci 12:453-66, 2011

5.      Jarcho J, Mayer EA, Jian K, London ED. Pain, affective symptoms, and cognitive deficits in patients with cerebral dopamine dysfunction. Pain 2012 Feb. 29 [Epub ahead of print]

6.         Margolis KG, Cryan JF, Mayer EA. The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: From Motility to Mood. Gastroenterology. 2021 Apr;160(5):1486-1501. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.10.066. Epub 2021 Jan 22. PMID: 33493503; PMCID: PMC8634751

7.         Jacobs JP, Lagishetty V, Hauer MC, Labus JS, Dong TS, Toma R, Vuyisich M, Naliboff BD, Lackner JM, Gupta A, Tillisch K, Mayer EA. Multi-omics profiles of the intestinal microbiome in irritable bowel syndrome and its bowel habit subtypes. Microbiome. 2023 Jan 10;11(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s40168-022-01450. PMID: 36624530; PMCID: PMC9830758

8.         Existing and future strategies to manipulate the gut microbiota with diet as a potential adjuvant treatment for psychiatric disorders. Ross FC, Mayer DE, Gupta A, Richard Gill CI, Del Rio D, Cryan JF, Lavelle A, Ross RP, Stanton C, Mayer EA. Biol Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 31:S0006-3223(23)01663-3. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.10.018. PMID: 37918459

9.         Aziz-Zadeh L, Ringold SM, Jayashankar A, Kilroy E, Butera C, Jacobs JP, Tanartkit S, Mahurkar-Joshi S, Bhatt RR, Dapretto M, Labus JS, Mayer EA. Relationships between brain activity, tryptophan-related gut metabolites, and autism symptomatology. Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 14;16(1):3465. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58459-1.PMID: 40229237

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Updated publication number: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=MAYER+EA

Updated h-index number: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8AZjP3MAAAAJ&hl=en

PBS documentary: https://www.pbs.org/show/the-brain-gut-connection-with-dr-emeran-mayer/ Edylanmayer (talk) 00:36, 30 August 2025 (UTC)