Sabrina Mörkl

Mar 20, 2023 | nature.com | Mary Butler |Sabrina Mörkl |John Cryan |Gerard Clarke

AbstractThe microbiome-gut-brain axis plays a role in anxiety, the stress response and social development, and is of growing interest in neuropsychiatric conditions. The gut microbiota shows compositional alterations in a variety of psychiatric disorders including depression, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia but studies investigating the gut microbiome in social anxiety disorder (SAD) are very limited.