ReviewArchives of microbiology2021
Approach of probiotics in mental health as a psychobiotics.
Review in Archives of microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Psychobiotics in the Treatment of Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Gut Microbiota: An Immersion in Dysbiosis, Associated Pathologies, and Probiotics.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Transforming mental health: the future of personalized psychobiotics in anxiety and depression therapy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Gut-Brain Axis and Neuroinflammation: The Role of Gut Permeability and the Kynurenine Pathway in Neurological Disorders.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2024Review
- Editorial for Special Issue "Effects of Probiotics on Health".Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Probiotics: truths and illusions.Iranian journal of microbiology · 2024Article
- The Role ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Therapeutic Prospect of New Probiotics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Gut-brain axis: gut dysbiosis and psychiatric disorders in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Probiotics are those beneficial microbes that confer various health benefits to humans when integrated in diet in adequate amount. They possess vital metabolites having nutritional and therapeutic properties which provide countless health benefits. Scientific discoveries demonstrated that these living microbial consortiums may exert impact on anxiety, depression, cognitive functions, stress responses and behaviours. Those probiotics that controls the functioning or actions of central nervous system (CNS) conciliated by the gut brain axis (GBA) through neural, humoral and metabolic pathways to ameliorate the gastrointestinal activity as well as anti-depressant and anxiolytic capacity are known as psychobiotics. Few evidences have confirmed the remedial effects of psychobiotics against neurological conditions or disorders. So, therapeutic approach of psychobiotics leads to the future possibilities in the development field for researchers. This review article describes the potential role and mechanism of action of psychobiotics.
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