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Professor John Cryan's Research profiled in article in the Verge

27 Nov 2013

Gut feelings: the future of psychiatry may be inside your stomach

In a , anxious mice dosed with the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus rhamnosus (JB-1) showed lower levels of anxiety, decreased stress hormones, and even an increase in brain receptors for a neurotransmitter that鈥檚 vital in curbing worry, anxiety, and fear.

 

There are changes that happen early in life that we can鈥檛 reverse,鈥 said John Cryan, a neuroscientist at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Cork in Ireland and a main investigator at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. 鈥淏ut there are some changes that we can reverse. It tells us that there is a window when microbes are having their main effects and, until this closes, many changes can be reversed.鈥

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