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Category: Microbiome

The Gut, the Brain and Mental Health

7th March 20237th March 2023 Patricia Cathryn Swart

Professor Sian Hemmings speaks about how the gut and the brain are linked.

Get the scoop on mental health and poop!

7th March 20237th March 2023 Patricia Cathryn Swart

Check out our popular science article in Quest: Science for South Africa (pg. 27 – 28) https://research.assaf.org.za/bitstream/handle/20.500.11911/263/Quest%20Vol%2018%20no%204.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

The brain in your belly, TEDx Stellenbosch, Feb 2018

24th July 201815th August 2018 Stefanie Malan-Muller

View this informative TED talk by Dr Malan-Müller about how the bacteria in your gut can affect your brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7o3gGoaV4&frags=pl%2Cwn

Getting closer to understanding the link between PTSD and bacteria in the gut

26th September 201726th September 2017 Stefanie Malan-Muller

This popular article featured in The Conversation hopes to translate our gut microbiome findings in PTSD, to the greater public in a more digestible format. Read the full article here.

The Microbiome in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Exposed Controls: An Exploratory Study

19th September 201719th September 2017 Stefanie Malan-Muller

Inadequate immunoregulation and elevated inflammation may be risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and microbial inputs are important determinants of immunoregulation; however, the association between the gut microbiota and PTSD is unknown. This study investigated the gut microbiome in Read More …

The Gut Microbiome and Mental Health: Implications for Anxiety-and Trauma-Related Disorders

17th September 201719th September 2017 Stefanie Malan-Muller

Biological psychiatry research has long focused on the brain in elucidating the neurobiological mechanisms of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders. This review challenges this assumption and suggests that the gut microbiome and its interactome also deserve attention to understand brain disorders Read More …

The Microbiota, Immunoregulation, and Mental Health: Implications for Public Health

17th September 201719th September 2017 Stefanie Malan-Muller

The hygiene or “Old Friends” hypothesis proposes that the epidemic of inflammatory disease in modern urban societies stems at least in part from reduced exposure to microbes that normally prime mammalian immunoregulatory circuits and suppress inappropriate inflammation. Such diseases include Read More …

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