For years, mental health was seen as something that started and ended in the brain. But an expanding field of research is revealing a key player in the story of our emotions: the gut. The trillions of ...

Mental health professionals are discovering that many cases of anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders might actually originate in the digestive system rather than the brain, fundamentally ...

New study reveals childhood stress may cause lifelong digestive problems. Research shows early trauma disrupts the brain-gut ...

The latest review evidence shows the gut and brain communicate in complex, two-way ways, making it hard to know which comes first. Experiments in animals, changes in psychiatric drug effects, and ...

Anyone who’s ever been anxious or stressed out and developed diarrhea, stomach pain, or nausea is instinctively aware of the connection between the brain and the gut. But, while that connection was ...

We like to believe that our decisions are made in the mind, carefully processed with logic and experience. But what if your gut is doing more than digesting lunch? What if it’s helping steer your ...

Past studies have found that gut activity can have significant impacts on the brain, and vice versa. Now, new research in ...

Scientists seeded this petri plate with KLE1738 and bacteria from human stool. KLE1738 is dependent upon gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an inhibitory neurotransmitter found in mammalian central ...

Dear Doctors: My 22-year-old son is severely bipolar, which impacts his life terribly. I have kept up with the studies that have shown success in treating bipolar with a fecal transplant. Do you know ...

Perhaps you have heard about the body’s second brain and wondered what it is. The name is a reflection of the complexity and ...