Sentences with phrase «of psychobiotics»

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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.

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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.