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A recent study on cerebral strokes induced experimentally in mice investigated interactions between the gut and the brain, and the role of the intestinal microbiota in the process.
Since 1833, when US army surgeon William Beaumont reported the first scientific study of a link between the gut and the brain*, science has come a long way in tracing the path of contact between the two systems.
Gut microbes affect brain functioning in many complex ways. It is, therefore, not surprising that dysfunction of the microbiota-gut-brain axis is linked to various psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
Studies show that visceral pain and anxiety, two symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, can be transferred by transplanting faecal gut microbiota from patients to germ-free mice.
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