A gut feeling: Microbiome-brain-immune interactions modulate social and affective behaviors

As part of this 2020 review, there was a meta-analysis carried out on the effectiveness of probiotic supplementation in psychiatric disorders. Several databases were systematically searched to find relevant articles published between January 1969 and December 2019. The aim was to comprehensively evaluate the bidirectional communication between the gut microbiota and the central nervous system. […]

Liang et al. (2018) express their thoughts on how the gut microbiota has experienced great change over the last centuries due to the transition movements especially in diet and lifestyle, and consider the research that investigates gut microbiota’s role in the pathophysiology of numerous mental and neurological diseases. The review takes an optimistic approach on […]