Not exact matches
Cryan and others are amassing evidence that they hope will lead to «
psychobiotics» — bacteria - based drugs made
of live organisms that could improve mental health.
In the April 2 SN: The rising threat
of Zika,
psychobiotics, sticky - fingered baby Jupiter, big chill for ancient oceans, microbes and malnutrition, Van Gogh's palette revealed, a literary leech and more.
In a brilliant review entitled «
Psychobiotics: A Novel Class
of Psychotropic,» Dinan et al tour us through the role
of probiotics (therapeutic live organisms ingested as a supplement or as part
of a fermented food) in mental health.
In 2013 Dr. Ted Dinan and Dr. John Cryan published a paper titled
Psychobiotics: a novel class
of psychotropic and in this paper they define a
psychobiotic as:
This new area
of research, called «
psychobiotics» is where the beneficial bacteria (probiotics) or prebiotics that influence bacteria — brain relationships can exert positive emotional, cognitive, systemic, and neural benefits (2).
According to Trends in Neuroscience, prebiotics are considered a form
of «
psychobiotic,» which exert beneficial effects on gut bacteria and positively impact the gut - brain - axis.