Friends with Social Benefits: Host-Microbe Interactions as a Driver of Brain Evolution and Development?

The tight association of the human body with trillions of colonizing microbes that we observe today is the result of a long evolutionary history. Only very recently have we started to understand how this symbiosis also affects brain function and behaviour. Here in this hypothesis and theory article,...

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Main Authors: Roman M Stilling, Seth R Bordenstein, Timothy G Dinan, John F Cryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2014.00147/full