Gutted! Unraveling the role of the microbiome in major depressive disorder

Discriminating experiences are linked to poor health consequences, including obesity. The exact processes by which prejudice causes obesity are yet unknown. Zhang et al. (2023) examined the effects of discriminating exposures on the brain’s responsiveness to food pictures and related dysregulations in the brain-gut-microbiome pathway using multi-omics studies of neuroimaging and fecal metabolites. The authors […]

In order to examine the causative association between gut microbiota and the onset of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), as well as the possible moderating role of depression in this relationship, this study by Huang et al. (2024) used a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) technique. Multiple two-sample MR methods were utilized to examine the causal effects […]