The role of the gut microbiota in schizophrenia: Current and future perspectives.

Daniela Rodrígues-Amorím Tania Rivera-Baltanás Benito Regueiro Carlos SpuchMaría Elena de Las HerasRaul Vázquez-Noguerol MéndezMaria Nieto-AraujoCarolina Barreiro-VillarJosé Manuel Olivares Roberto Carlos Agís-Balboa

Published in: The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2018)

In this review, the gut microbiota and epigenetic mechanisms were considered as key regulators, revealing a potential new aetiology of schizophrenia. Likewise, continuous technological advances (e.g. culturomics), aimed at the microbiota-gut-brain axis generate new evidence on this concept.

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