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Probiotics, Prebiotics and Mental Health

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Mental Health (Adult Population)

The CNP Probiotics, Prebiotics and Mental Health Research Category consolidates research exploring the effects of probiotics, prebiotics, psychobiotics, and synbiotics on mental health. To view each original study on the open internet, click “Original.” To view the CNP-written abstract summary, click “CNP Summary.” While only some CNP-written abstract summaries are available below for free, all are available to CNP members through the CNP Library Membership.

The effect of probiotics on cognitive function across the human lifespan: A systematic review

  • Karim Maghraby, M.B.B.Ch, M.Sc, Director
  • 01 December 2021
  • Reviewed By CNP STAFF
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Effects of probiotics on depressive or anxiety variables in healthy participants under stress conditions or with a depressive or anxiety diagnosis: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

  • Karim Maghraby, M.B.B.Ch, M.Sc, Director
  • 01 December 2021
  • Reviewed By CNP STAFF

Probiotics have been linked to the management of anxiety and depression, and have been used on individuals with a range of emotional states, but no meta-analysis has explicitly mentioned this. As a result, the findings that have been published in the literature have been uneven. In this meta-analysis by Chao et al. (2020), the authors […]

The gut-brain relationship: Investigating the effect of multispecies probiotics on anxiety in a randomized placebo-controlled trial of healthy young adults

  • Karim Maghraby, M.B.B.Ch, M.Sc, Director
  • 01 December 2021
  • Reviewed By CNP STAFF

With the aim of uncovering the effect of microbiota in the gut, through probiotics intervention, on mental health like anxiety and its related factors, this 2019 double-blind, randomization-control study randomly assigned 86 healthy college students (average age 20.6, 75.6% female) to one of five conditions, including 4 probiotic treatments and one placebo, and provided these […]

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