Trial reportTranslational psychiatry2021
Probiotics-induced changes in gut microbial composition and its effects on cognitive performance after stress: exploratory analyses.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Effect of probiotic supplementation on the gut microbiota diversity in healthy populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- The effects of oral probiotic intervention on brain structure and function in human adults: a systematic review.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Pooled it
- Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between the Gut Microbiome and Body Composition across the Human Lifespan: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy and Safety ofNutrients · 2025Trial
- The Effects of a Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Brain Function and Its Relation With Immunometabolic Markers and Intestinal Health in Older Adults at Risk of Cognitive Decline: Study Design and Baseline Characteristics of the HELI Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Trial
- Probiotic-mediated modulation of gut microbiome in students exposed to academic stress: a randomized controlled trial.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Trial
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- Probiotic Mixture ContainingNutrients · 2022Trial
- Treatment With Multi-Species Probiotics Changes the Functions, Not the Composition of Gut Microbiota in Postmenopausal Women With Obesity: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Trial
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- The combined effects of probiotic and high-intensity interval training on memory function in high fat diet-fed rats.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2026Article
- Psychobiotic Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, and Schizophrenia: A Narrative Review.Journal of restorative medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluating the effect of γ-oryzanol on MASLD pathology using a medaka fish model.FEBS open bio · 2026Article
- The Ability of Probiotic Strain Escherichia coli O83:K24:H31 to Modulate Gut Homeostasis and Immune Function After Antibiotic-Induced Dysbiosis.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Article
- A gut feeling: Exploring the effects of probiotics on risk-taking behavior using TMS.iScience · 2026Article
- Dietary niches drive microbial community assembly, network reorganization, and symbiont evolution in freshwater fish gut microbiomes.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Exerkine irisin mitigates cognitive impairment by suppressing gut-brain axis-mediated inflammation.Journal of advanced research · 2025Article
- Probiotic effects on cognitive performance, hippocampal oxidative stress, and structural damage induced by icv STZ in Alzheimer-like rat model.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Probiotics restore impaired spatial cognition and synaptic plasticity of prenatally-stressed male rats: focus on hippocampal and intestinal tight junctions.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
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Abstract
Stress negatively affects cognitive performance. Probiotics remediate somatic and behavioral stress responses, hypothetically by acting on the gut microbiota. Here, in exploratory analyses, we assessed gut microbial alterations after 28-days supplementation of multi-strain probiotics (EcologicBarrier consisting of Lactobacilli, Lactococci, and Bifidobacteria in healthy, female subjects (probiotics group n = 27, placebo group n = 29). In an identical pre-session and post-session, subjects performed a working memory task before and after an acute stress intervention. Global gut microbial beta diversity changed over time, but we were not able to detect differences between intervention groups. At the taxonomic level, Time by Intervention interactions were not significant after multiple comparison correction; the relative abundance of eight genera in the probiotics group was higher (uncorrected) relative to the placebo group: Butyricimonas, Parabacteroides, Alistipes, Christensenellaceae_R-7_group, Family_XIII_AD3011_group, Ruminococcaceae_UCG-003, Ruminococcaceae_UCG-005, and Ruminococcaceae_UCG-010. In a second analysis step, association analyses were done only within this selection of microbial genera, revealing the probiotics-induced change in genus Ruminococcaceae_UCG-003 was significantly associated with probiotics' effect on stress-induced working memory changes (r
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