Breadcrumb Home Departments Medicine Digestive Diseases Tache Lab Tache Lab Research Sub-navigation Tache Lab About Us Awards & News Awards News Contact Us Meet Our Team Research Brain-Gut Axis Obesity Parkinson's Disease SPARC Stress Training Program Tache Lab More Close About Us Awards & News Awards News Contact Us Meet Our Team Research Brain-Gut Axis Obesity Parkinson's Disease SPARC Stress Training Program Close UCLA’s neurogastroenterology program conducts research in four major areas. In addition, we are engaged in comprehensive structural and functional mapping of the mammalian colonic nervous system through the SPARC program. Brain-gut axis Obesity Parkinson's disease Stimulating peripheral activity to relieve conditions (SPARC) Stress