The concept that the gut and brain are intricately linked is widely
accepted not just within the lay community but increasingly within
scientific and therapeutic circles as well. Terms such as
"heartache" and "gut wrenching" are more than mere metaphor, they
represent key fundamental aspects of human experience which all
individuals will invariably endure from time to time. The
relationship between the gut and brain is complex but fundamental
to health and wellbeing. Increasing and compelling evidence
supports the existence of a relationship between the health and
status of the gut and the manifestation of significant
psychopathology. Uniquely within the field of mental health and
psychiatry, the role of gut flora and probiotics in both the
understanding and treatment of mental illness represents an
emerging science whether the potential for therapeutic
intervention, through the use of probiotics, offers an opportunity
to determine efficacy within a coherent evidence-based model of
both action and pathology or, moreover, offers interventions that
are comparatively benign compared to the side-effect profile
associated with most drugs used to treat mental illness. Probiotics
in Mental Health examines the role of probiotics in a range of
clinical presentations associated with significant psychopathology
and facilitates a reconsideration of how mental illness may be
conceptualised within a coherent gut-brain model of health and
wellbeing. Under the rubric of enhancing wellbeing rather than
dwelling on illness and disease, this exciting new volume not only
comprises the latest evidence in the field but also advocates an
approach characterised by the understanding of mental disorder
within an evidence-based model and the pursuit of mental health and
wellbeing through the most benign of interventions.
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