Relationship between psychosocial stress-induced prefrontal cortex activity and gut microbiota in healthy Participants—A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
Kao Yamaoka, Nobuo Uotsu, E. Hoshino
Abstract
in healthy participants who had high psychosocial stress resembled that noted in patients with depression. These results suggest that the gut microbiota differs, among healthy participants, depending on the psychosocial stress response. We believe that this study is the first to report a direct relationship between brain function and the gut microbiota in healthy participants, and our findings would shed a new light on this field in the near future.
Topics & Concepts
Prefrontal cortexPsychosocialGut floraPsychologyTrier social stress testGut–brain axisFunctional near-infrared spectroscopyNeuroscienceClinical psychologyMedicinePsychiatryBiologyFight-or-flight responseCognitionImmunologyGeneticsGeneGut microbiota and healthStress Responses and CortisolTryptophan and brain disorders