ReviewCureus2023
The Benefits of Prebiotics and Probiotics on Mental Health.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A Mechanistic Study ofJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- The Gut-Brain Axis and Mental Health: How Diet Shapes Our Cognitive and Emotional Well-Being.Cureus · 2025Review
- Unveiling probiotic and prebiotic functional dairy foods: a health beneficial outlook.3 Biotech · 2025Review
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- Role of the gut microbiome in psychological symptoms associated with inflammatory bowel diseases.Seminars in immunopathology · 2025Review
- The immunological landscape of traumatic brain injury: insights from pathophysiology to experimental models.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- The Gut Microbiota-anxiety Connection: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Strategies.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- Progress in Probiotic Science: Prospects of Functional Probiotic-Based Foods and Beverages.International journal of food science · 2025Review
- Probiotic Supplementation during Pregnancy: Evaluating the Current Clinical Evidence against Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Current diabetes reviews · 2025Review
- Utilization of Probiotic-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Postbiotics and Their Role in Mental Health Therapeutics.Food science of animal resources · 2024Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
In individuals with depression and anxiety, the composition or alteration of their gut microbiota can significantly affect their psychological symptoms. Articles for this study were selected using PubMed and NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) with the following search terms: "gut microbiota," "depression," "anxiety," "probiotics," and "prebiotics." These studies evaluated the composition of the gut microbiota and the decrease in symptoms of depression and anxiety due to treatment with probiotics and prebiotics. Only papers published after 2015 were included. There was a significant relationship between the composition and alteration of the gut microbiota and the presence or variation of symptoms of depression and anxiety. Treatment with probiotics or prebiotics improved the symptoms of these mental health conditions. This literature review examines how different prebiotics and probiotics affect mental health and how altering individuals' gut microbiota correlates with depression and anxiety. Treatment with probiotics or prebiotics may decrease the severity of these mental disorders by altering the gut microbiota.
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