Open label study of probiotics and autism

" We concluded that probiotics have beneficial effects on both behavioral and GI [gastrointestinal]  manifestations of ASD  [autism sp...

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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as a risk factor for bipolar disorder

" Only irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) emerged as a risk factor for BD  [ bipolar disorder ]  supported by convincing evidence. " ...

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Intestinal dysbiosis, irritable bowel syndrome and ME/CFS

I don't want to spend too much time talking about yet another paper from the research tag-team that is Hornig & Lipkin [1] (open-ac...

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Recurrent antibiotic exposure and risk of depression and/or anxiety?

Accepting the notions that (i) correlation is not necessarily the same as causation and that (ii)  case-control observational studies  in pa...

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Gut bacteria profiles in children with autism and asymptomatic siblings

The paper by Joshua Son and colleagues [1] ( open-access here ) made for some interesting reading recently and various findings including: ...

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Psychiatric comorbidity accompanying irritable bowel syndrome

OK, a few choice words to start: the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) , nationwide cohort study, large participant number...

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Inflammatory bowel disease and autism: increased prevalence

A quote to begin today's post: " Across each population with different kinds of ascertainment, there was a consistent and statistic...

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