Psychobiotics were previously defined as live bacteria (probiotics) which, when ingested,
confer mental health benefits through interactions with commensal gut bacteria. We expand …

Psychology and microbiology make unlikely friends, but the past decade has witnessed
striking bidirectional associations between intrinsic gut microbes and the brain, relationships …

Microbes colonise all multicellular life, and the gut microbiome has been shown to influence
a range of host physiological and behavioural phenotypes. One of the most intriguing and …

Objectives To identify risk factors for and the consequences (several adverse perinatal
outcomes) of physician-diagnosed major depression during pregnancy treated in …

Objectives To study how reproductive risks and perinatal outcomes are associated with
postpartum depression treated in specialised healthcare defined according to the …

OBJECTIVES: There is an ongoing debate concerning the temporal stability of alexithymia.
Most previous studies have been conducted on clinical populations of psychiatric and …

ObjectiveOnly a few cross-sectional studies have assessed the association between coffee,
tea and caffeine and the risk of depression. Our aim was to determine the association in a …

Study Design. Prospective clinical study. Objective. To investigate the effect of depressive
symptoms on the surgery outcome on 2-year follow-up among lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) …

Objective: To explore the associations between alexithymia and increased somatic
morbidity. The mechanisms underlying these associations, however, are still unclear …

OBJECTIVE: Disagreements concerning the stability of alexithymia and its ability to predict
subsequent psychiatric disorders prevail. The aim of this 7-year follow-up study was to …