Antidepressant flavonoids and their relationship with oxidative stress

The gut-brain axis has mainly been studied in relation to bacteria; commensal fungi have received less attention. Dysbiosis of the gut bacterial microbiota has been linked to depression in children and adolescents, but the mycobiota’s contribution has not been examined. In this study by Hao et al. (2023), 145 children and adolescents with depression and […]

Exposure to stress during the critical period of early development has been shown to influence brain programming and increase the odds of suffering from cognitive impairments later in life. Early-life stress (ES) causes cognitive deterioration in adulthood, linked to alterations in hippocampus neurogenesis and neuroinflammation, as shown by Geertsema et al. (2024). Specifically, ES has been found to […]