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What’s bugging your teen?—The microbiota and adolescent mental health

McVey Neufeld, Karen-Anne, Luczynski, Pauline, Seira Oriach, Clara, Dinan, Timothy G., Cryan, John F.·2016·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Abstract

Human adolescence is a time of enormous developmental change, second only to infancy and early childhood in terms of brain shaping and growth. It is also a period in life when the young adult is faced with distinct environmental challenges and stressors. Interestingly, we now know that these external sources of stress all have an impact on the intestinal microbiota. Given that there is now a significant body of knowledge indicating a role for the microbiota-gut-brain axis in development and function of the brain, and potentially the emergence of psychiatric illnesses, we need to draw our attention to the intestinal microbiota in the adolescent. As psychiatric illnesses frequently first manifest during the teenage years it may be that the intestinal bacteria are playing an as yet unidentified role in disease pathogenesis. Identifying a role for the microbiota in psychiatric illnesses opens up an exciting opportunity for therapeutic advances via bacterial manipulation. This could prove to be a beneficial and novel avenue for treatment of mental illnesses in the developing teen.

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  • These extended maturations can pose an additional sensitive period for microbial priming of the maturing adolescent brain and provide opportunities to improve adolescent mental wellbeing.

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Authors
McVey Neufeld, K.-A., Luczynski, P., Seira Oriach, C., Dinan, T. G., & Cryan, J. F.
Affiliations
University College Cork (IE)
Corresponding author
Cryan, John F.
Venue
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-11
Volume
70
Pages
300-312
ISSN
0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2418518913
Cited by
56
References
239
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3
FWCI
0.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Gastroenterology › Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Biological Psychiatry › Tryptophan and brain disorders
Keywords
gut microbiota, adolescent mental health, microbiota-gut-brain axis, adolescent stress, mental illness, brain development
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Mental Disorders, Brain, Humans, Mental Health, Microbiota

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