A gut-wrenching experience. Butterflies in your stomach. Many of us instinctively feel the connection between our gut and our brain. That connection and how the range of bacteria residing in our ...

The relationship between mental health and the gut is something most people are able to feel in times of stress and anxiety; it's common to experience nausea alongside nervousness when under pressure, ...

Researchers at the intersection of psychiatry and biochemistry think adding beneficial bacteria to our diet could be a treatment for anxiety and depression. But there are still many unknowns about ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects millions of people worldwide, presenting a significant challenge for healthcare providers. Shockingly, over half of all patients do not respond to initial ...

A few weeks ago the first video in our monthly series with Dr. Drew Ramsey came out on Medscape Psychiatry, discussing some of the highlights of brain food and the microbiome from research in 2015.

Probiotic supplements and foods could help improve daily mood, a new study finds. Image credit: Susan Brooks-Dammann/Stocksy. Previous research has also shown that probiotic use may help improve a ...

Probiotic supplementation decreased C-reactive protein (CRP) levels by 21.3% compared with placebo in patients with depression; a larger effect was seen in those with metabolic syndrome (MetS) or ...

Probiotics either taken by themselves or when combined with prebiotics, may help to ease depression, suggests a review of the available evidence, published in BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health. But as ...

Dear Doctor: It seems like you can’t go a day without probiotics turning out to be the cure for some ailment or another. Now we’re being told they help depression. How can that be? Dear Reader: We ...

When used as an adjunctive treatment, probiotic supplements reduce symptoms in patients with major depression, results of a randomized placebo-controlled trial suggest. By the end of the 8-week pilot ...