Studies Demonstrate Potential Use of Bacteria to Prevent Stress-Related Disorders

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 behaviour.Reporting in their findings  Brain, Behavior and Immunity , the researchers suggest that if similar results could be generated in