2022peer-reviewed53 citations
Multispecies probiotic administration reduces emotional salience and improves mood in subjects with moderate depression: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
Rita Baião, Liliana P. Capitão, Cameron Higgins, Michael Browning, Catherine J. Harmer, Philip W. J. Burnet
Psychological Medicine
Abstract
The impartiality to positive and negative emotional stimuli or reward after probiotic supplementation have not been observed with conventional antidepressant therapies. Further studies are required to elucidate the significance of these changes with regard to the mood-improving action of the current probiotic.
Concepts
ProbioticMoodPsychologySalience (neuroscience)Clinical psychologyAntidepressantAction (physics)