Mental health thinking from the gut.

• Autores: Charles Schmidt
• Localización: Nature: International weekly journal of science, ISSN 0028-0836, Vol. 518, Nº Extra 7540, 2015, págs. 13-13
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The microbiome may yield a new class of psychobiotics for the treatment of anxiety, depression and other mood disorders : THE NOTION THAT THE STATE of our gut governs our state of mind dates back more than 100 years. Many 19th- and early 20th-century scientists believed that accumulating wastes in the colon triggered a state of "auto-intoxication," whereby poisons emanating from the gut produced infections that were in turn linked with depression, anxiety and psychosis. Patients were treated with colonic purges and even bowel surgeries until these practices were dismissed as quackery.