Browsing by Subject "Gut-brain axis"

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A metagenomic microbiome investigation in the deer mouse : a translational approach to obsessive-compulsive disorder

Scheepers, Isabella Magdalena (North-West University (South-Africa), 2019)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)1 is characterized by persistent, intrusive and often anxiety-provoking thoughts, i.e. obsessions and/or ritualistic behaviors (compulsions) that are expressed in an attempt to reduce the ...
Overview of brain-to-gut axis exposed to chronic CNS bacterial infection(s) and a predictive urinary metabolic profile of a brain infected by mycobacterium tuberculosis

Isaiah, Simon; Loots, Du Toit; Mason, Shayne; Solomons, Regan; Van der Kuip, Martijn (Frontiers Media, 2020)

A new paradigm in neuroscience has recently emerged – the brain–gut axis (BGA). The contemporary focus in this paradigm has been gut → brain (“bottom-up”), in which the gut-microbiome, and its perturbations, affects one’s ...