Probiotic Shot May Alleviate Brain Stress

Stress can lead to anxiety and symptoms of depression, which are caused, in part, by neuroinflammatory processes. Studies in mice by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder have now shown how injections of the bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae  can prevent these stress-related inflammatory responses in the brain and reduce stress-induced anxiety behavior.Reporting in their findings  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity , the researchers suggest that if similar results could be generated in