Neuroscience
According to Prof. Ted Dinan, who has been investigating the brain-intestinal axis for years, the gut microbiota plays a role in the genesis of depression.
Lactobacillus reuteri can improve social behavior in different mouse models of autism spectrum disorder, researchers have found.
Dysbiosis may be involved in drug-resistant epilepsy and the restoration of gut microbiota may be a novel therapeutic method for drug-resistant epilepsy.
GDP-L-fucose synthase, a protein produced by bacteria often found in the gut of people with MS, triggers an autoimmune response from T-cells in MS patients.
Ted Dinan of University College Cork, Ireland, gives us an insight into the intestine-brain axis.
