Microbioma and Mind

Can Microbes Manipulate Our Minds?

One theory gaining momentum is that members of the gut microbiome actively manipulate our behaviour for their own benefit. NeuroscienceNews.com image is adapted from the University of Oxford news release.

NEUROSCIENCE NEWSAPRIL 28, 2018
Summary: Researchers report we may have evolved to depend on our gut bacteria to aid normal brain function, and changes in our microbiome could have effects on our behavior.

Source: University of Oxford.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have proposed an evolutionary framework to understand why microbes living in the gut affect the brain and behaviour, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.

Katerina Johnson (Department of Experimental Psychology) and Kevin Foster (Department of Zoology) assessed data from studies on the gut-brain axis to suggest how ‘that gut feeling’ evolved./.../