UCLA Neuroscience Program Ph.D. Admissions Neuroscience Faculty UCLA and Beyond  



Emeran Mayer
Neurobiology of Stress, Pain and Emotion

Work Email Address:  emayer@ucla.edu
Home Page: http://uclacns.org

Mailing Address:
10945 Le Conte Ave
Work Address:
100 Med Plaza
Phone Numbers:
310-312-9276 Office

Selected Publications:

Mayer EA Clinical Perspectives: Irritable bowel syndrome. NEJM 2008; in press: .
Berman SM, Naliboff BN, Suyenobu B, Labus JS, Stains J, Ohning G, Kilpatrick L, Bueller JA, Ruby K, Jarcho J, Mayer EA Female IBS patients show altered anticipatory responses which predict the brain???s enhanced response to pelvic visceral stimulus. J. Neuroscience 2007; 28: 349-59.
Naliboff BD, Berman S, Derbyshire SWG, Mandelkern M, Chang L, Stains J, Suyenobu B, Mayer EA Longitudinal changes in perceptual and brain responses to visceral stimulation in irritable bowel syndrome patients. Gastroenterology 2006; 131(2): 352-365.
Mayer EA, Naliboff BN, Craig AD Neuroimaging of the brain-gut axis: From basic understanding to treatment of functional GI disorders. Gastroenterology 2006; 131(6): 1925-42.
Mayer EA, Berman S, Suyenobu B, Labus J, Mandelkern MA, Naliboff BD, Chang L . Differences in brain responses to visceral pain between patients with irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis. Pain 2005; 115(3): 398-409.
Research Interest:

Research interests include the interface of stress, pain, and emotions at various levels of investigations, from basic studies on ion channels and signal transduction to animal models of chronic pain and neuroimaging studies in human populations (healthy control subjects and various patient populations with chronic pain).