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Translational Psychiatry - The gut microbiome in social anxiety disorder: evidence of altered composition and function

Walker and Hoyles highlight selected myths and misconceptions in the human microbiota literature.

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a crippling psychiatric disorder characterized by intense fear or anxiety in social situations and their avoidance...

Because large brains are energetically expensive, they are associated with metabolic traits that facilitate energy availability across vertebrates. However, the biological underpinnings driving these traits are not known. Given its role in regulating host metabolism in disease studies, we hypothesized that the gut microbiome contributes to variation in normal cross-vertebrate species differences in metabolism, including those associated with the brain’s energetic requirements. By inoculating germ-free mice with the gut microbiota (GM) of three primate species – two with relatively larger brains and one with a smaller brain – we demonstrated that the GM of larger-brained primates shifts host metabolism towards energy use and production, while that of smaller-brained primates stimulates energy storage in adipose tissues. Our findings establish a causal role of the GM in normal cross-host species differences in metabolism associated with relative brain size and suggest that the GM may have been an important facilitator of metabolic changes during human evolution that supported encephalization.

Scientific research highlights the central role of specific psychological processes, in particular those related to the self, in various forms of human suffering and flourishing. This view is shared by Buddhism and other contemplative and humanistic ...

Indo-Caribbean Shaktism refers to the unique blend of Shakti worship, a branch of Hinduism that venerates the divine feminine energy, practiced by the Indo-Caribbean community in the Caribbean region. It is a syncretic form of religious expression

Objective Psychopathic traits are associated with abnormalities in fear processing. While traditional theories focus on a lack of fear, Hosker-Field et al. (2016) provided a new perspective. They su...

A resource dedicated to establishing the field of formalised subjective effect documentation.

Contexts systemic design journal publishes relevant studies and is a space for presentation and dialogue for emerging and controversial work.

(2020). Critical realism and the ontology of persons. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 113-120.

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The Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS) was created within the World Social Forum (WSF) in 2003, with the aim of promoting shared knowledge and extending, linking and strengthening forms of resistance to neoliberal globalisation, ...

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