Area of research
Molecular Biology · Biological Psychiatry
Research interest
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Faecal Transplants for Bipolar Depression: Moving out of the Periphery?
Hepatic tryptophan metabolism links chronic stress to liver cancer.
Unravelling the role of the gut microbiome in antipsychotic-induced weight gain and metabolic dysfunction in humans and rodents: A systematic review.
The Microbiota Shapes Central Nervous System Myelination in Early Life.
Habitual coffee intake shapes the gut microbiome and modifies host physiology and cognition.
Bifidobacterium longum and prebiotic interventions restore early-life high-fat/high-sugar diet-induced alterations in feeding behavior in adult mice.
Global environmental change and the gut–kidney–brain axis: a review and framework of vulnerability and resilience
The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis: Therapeutic implications.
The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health
Gut microbiota regulates stress responsivity via the circadian system.
International consensus statement on microbiome testing in clinical practice.
The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health.
Exploiting the gut microbiome for brain tumour treatment.
Distinguishing the causative, correlative and bidirectional roles of the gut microbiota in mental health
Distinguishing the causative, correlative and bidirectional roles of the gut microbiota in mental health
A role for microglia in mediating the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Acute stress-induced alterations in short-chain fatty acids: Implications for the intestinal and blood brain barriers.
I "Gut" Rhythm: the microbiota as a modulator of the stress response and circadian rhythms.
Acute stress enhances synaptic plasticity in male mice via a microbiota-dependent mechanism.
Microbiome and Brain Development: A Tale of Two Systems.
Gut microbiota regulates exercise-induced hormetic modulation of cognitive function.
Policy Actions Required to Improve Nutrition for Brain Health.
Interplay between (poly)phenols, gut microbiota, and biological rhythms: outlook for a new paradigm in brain health.
From <i>in silico</i> screening to <i>in vivo</i> validation in zebrafish - a framework for reeling in the right psychobiotics.
Gut microbiota: our fellow travellers in health & disease.
Neuroglia and the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
In vitro assessment of bacterial supernatants on hypothalamic gene expression: implications for appetite regulation.
Nutritional interventions to counteract the detrimental consequences of early-life stress.
The mood stabilizers lithium and valproate disrupt hepatic and intestinal farnesoid X receptor signalling and increase bile synthesis in the rat.
The gut microbiome associated with LGI1-antibody encephalitis.