ReviewHormones and behavior2018
A gut feeling: Microbiome-brain-immune interactions modulate social and affective behaviors.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Compositional and Functional Alterations in Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Psychosis or Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Examining the Influence of the Human Gut Microbiota on Cognition and Stress: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Combined Fish Oil and Pine Bark Extract Supplementation Improves Short-Term Memory and the Antioxidant Status in Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Double-Blind, Parallel-Group Pilot Study.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Shared functional microbiome signatures in Parkinson's disease and constipation predominate irritable bowel syndrome despite taxonomic divergence.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Getting Over It: Maternal Stress and Gut Microbiome Manipulations Do Not Affect Rates of Offspring Habituation During Long Bouts of Stress.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026Article
- Gut microbiome community structure correlates with different behavioral phenotypes in the Belyaev Farm-Fox Experiment.Communications biology · 2026Article
- A gut feeling: Exploring the effects of probiotics on risk-taking behavior using TMS.iScience · 2026Article
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- Association of a Healthy Lifestyle With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Individuals With Probable Sarcopenia: Population-Based Cohort Study.JMIR aging · 2025Article
- Gut microbial contributions to thermogenesis.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Review
- Rewiring the Brain Through the Gut: Insights into Microbiota-Nervous System Interactions.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Supplementation With Human Foods Affects the Gut Microbiota of Wild Howler Monkeys.American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Exploring the Utility of the Gut Microbiome as a Longitudinal Health Monitoring Tool in Sanctuary Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- The Influence of Cecal Microbiota Transplantation on Chicken Injurious Behavior: Perspective in Human Neuropsychiatric Research.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Social fear extinction susceptibility is associated with Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis alterations.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Integrated Microbiome and Serum Metabolome Analysis Reveals Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms of the Average Daily Weight Gain of Yorkshire Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Fewer culturable Lactobacillaceae species identified in faecal samples of pigs performing manipulative behaviour.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Gut-Brain Axis and the Microbiome in Anxiety Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
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Abstract
The expression of a wide range of social and affective behaviors, including aggression and investigation, as well as anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors, involves interactions among many different physiological systems, including the neuroendocrine and immune systems. Recent work suggests that the gut microbiome may also play a critical role in modulating behavior and likely functions as an important integrator across physiological systems. Microbes within the gut may communicate with the brain via both neural and humoral pathways, providing numerous avenues of research in the area of the gut-brain axis. We are now just beginning to understand the intricate relationships among the brain, microbiome, and immune system and how they work in concert to influence behavior. The effects of different forms of experience (e.g., changes in diet, immune challenge, and psychological stress) on the brain, gut microbiome, and the immune system have often been studied independently. Though because these systems do not work in isolation, it is essential to shift our focus to the connections among them as we move forward in our investigations of the gut-brain axis, the shaping of behavioral phenotypes, and the possible clinical implications of these interactions. This review summarizes the recent progress the field has made in understanding the important role the gut microbiome plays in the modulation of social and affective behaviors, as well as some of the intricate mechanisms by which the microbiome may be communicating with the brain and immune system.
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