Dear Doctors: My 22-year-old son is severely bipolar, which impacts his life terribly. I have kept up with the studies that have shown success in treating bipolar with a fecal transplant. Do you know ...

Co-written with Jai Liester. In recent years, research has illuminated the intricate connection between our gut and brain, revealing how this relationship significantly impacts mental health. Now, a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Lifestyle contributor Sherry Mukasa Matemachani discusses the connection between the gut and brain and how stress can affect physical well-being. She also highlights the body’s ...

Mental health professionals are discovering that many cases of anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders might actually originate in the digestive system rather than the brain, fundamentally ...

The latest review evidence shows the gut and brain communicate in complex, two-way ways, making it hard to know which comes first. Experiments in animals, changes in psychiatric drug effects, and ...

Strong social relationships, particularly high-quality marriages, may help protect against obesity by influencing a complex communication system between the brain and gut, according to new research by ...

That knot in the stomach before a big presentation isn't just anxiety—it's a sophisticated neural network firing signals independent of conscious thought. The enteric nervous system, a mesh of 200–600 ...