Association between depression, anxiety symptoms and gut microbiota in Chinese elderly with functional constipation

Bailey et al. (2011) acknowledges that there are studies already that have demonstrated the influential role of stressor exposures in the stability of microbiota and that they predispose bacterial translocation, but the biological importance of this was not well understood. This animal-model study on mice aimed to determine whether the microbiome contributes to stressor-induced immunoenhancement, […]

Clapp et al. (2017) describe the increasing evidence showing bidirectional communication between the central nervous system and gut microbiota (referred to as the gut-brain-axis), and associating these microbiota in the gut with gastrointestinal and extragastrointestinal diseases. Since dysbiosis and inflammation of the gut has been linked to the predisposition of several mental illnesses including anxiety […]