ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Microbes and Mental Illness: Past, Present, and Future.
Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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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
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neuroimaging Insights into the Public Health Burden of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review of Electroencephalography-Based Cognitive Biomarkers.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Postmortem evidence of Babesia and Bartonella infections in chronically ill suicidal young people.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Probiotic Bacteria in Stimulating Human Physiological Responses: Metabolic Function and Overall Health.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Editorial: Severe mental illnesses in children: unravelling developmental trajectories, neuropsychiatric impairments, and chronic pain.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- From cats to cortex:Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Viral infections and risk of mental illness: A Mendelian randomization study.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Oral-Gut Microbiota Crosstalk and Epigenetic Targets in Metabolic and Neuropsychiatric Diseases.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Mushrooms, Microdosing, and Mental Illness: The Effect of Psilocybin on Neurotransmitters, Neuroinflammation, and Neuroplasticity.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Review
- Investigating the frequency of tick-borne infections in a case series of 37 youth diagnosed with pediatric bipolar disorder.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Neurobartonelloses: emerging from obscurity!Parasites & vectors · 2024Review
- Microglia-mediated neuroimmune suppression in PTSD is associated with anhedonia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
A review of the association between microbes and mental illness is performed, including the history, relevant definitions, infectious agents associated with mental illnesses, complex interactive infections, total load theory, pathophysiology, psychoimmunology, psychoneuroimmunology, clinical presentations, early-life infections, clinical assessment, and treatment. Perspectives on the etiology of mental illness have evolved from demonic possession toward multisystem biologically based models that include gene expression, environmental triggers, immune mediators, and infectious diseases. Microbes are associated with a number of mental disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depressive disorders, and anxiety disorders, as well as suicidality and aggressive or violent behaviors. Specific microbes that have been associated or potentially associated with at least one of these conditions include
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