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Probiotics in Mental Health Probiotics in Mental Health Editors Colin R Martin Faculty of Society and Health Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK Derek Larkin Department of Psychology Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK p, p, A SCIENCE PUBLISHERS BOOK A SCIENCE PUBLISHERS BOOK Cover credit: Illustrations taken from Chapter 4. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 22001187 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Printed on acid-free paper Version Date: 2200117710211149 International Standard Book Number-13: 997788--11--44696857--74375969--78 (Hardback) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2017057525 | ISBN 9781466573567 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Mental illness--Treatment. | Probiotics--Therapeutic use. | Gastrointestinal system--Microbiology. Classification: LCC RC480 .P69 2018 | DDC 616.89/1--dc23 LC record available athttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017057525 Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com Dedication Colin R Martin—I would like to dedicate this book to my beautiful daughter Caragh Brien, in her third year at medical school and of whom I am so proud. Derek Larkin—I would like to dedicate this book to my partner Karen Ann Nicklin whose love and guidance has been impressive. She is my best friend, staunch ally, most able critic, and my role model. For my part I would also like to dedicate this book to my in-laws (Iris, Norman and Nigel) simply because they bring laughter in to my life—Thank you. Acknowledgements The Editors would like to acknowledge each contributor in turn, this book would not have been accomplished without their hard work, professionalism and dedication. We are also grateful to our friends and colleagues who have provided us with extensive personal and professional guidance. Foreword The recent interest in the relationship between the gut and well-being has been an intriguing development within, till recently, the biosciences. Interestingly, from that perspective, the focus has been largely in the area of physical well-being. However, this is changing as the relationship between the gut and the brain, which, though undeniably complex, begins to present compelling evidence for a significant relationship with mental health. This is important as it allows us to consider the emergence of some mental health problems in a novel way and allows us to contrast this new evidence with existing models, irrespective of whether they be medical, psychosocial or genetic models. A fundamentally exciting position also presents itself with this emerging evidence base of the gut–brain axis for those of us working within the clinical sphere, and that is the potential for interventions that may be effective and also benign, particularly when one considers the side-effect profile that is associated with many of the pharmacological interventions used within the mental health field. The area of probiotics and mental health thus represents a comparatively new field, a science in its infancy and yet, even at this early stage of evolution, finding novel and robust outcomes with significant implications for potential intervention strategies. Reflecting on the potential role of probiotics to help with mental health problems provides a seductive context for a number of potential ‘thought experiments’. It is thus plausible to consider in a scientific and robust way, the relationship between the gut–brain axis and the manifestation of significant mental health problems within an aetiological perspective. Thus, if we are able to establish a relationship between for example, the gut–brain axis and depression, what does this mean in terms of diagnosis, course and outcome? Given the complexity of diagnostic systems used within clinical psychiatry, could this be considered a unitary model of depression, embracing all accounts of diagnosed depression, or could this be the context to define a new type of depression, with a different cause, treatment and outcome, to say, for example, an endogenous depression defined within an aetiological model of low 5-Hydroxytriptamine (serotonin) levels, which would of course would likely define a pharmacological intervention approach, usually with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s). Considering just this single premise then, a constellation of pertinent factors begins to emerge regarding, diagnosis, course and prognosis. The above presents just one potential possibility that the area of probiotics and mental health brings in facilitating innovation and renewal in the provision of evidence-based mental health care. A second exciting possibility is that through effective patient education in the link between the gut–brain axis and mental health

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