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The brain has its own microbiome. Here's what it means for your health (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a link to the scientific paper(s) that this article references?

I'm a neuroscientist, and my microbiologist girlfriend and I always debate about the importance of microbes to neuroscience.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I believe this is another writeup: https://www.science.org/content/article/can-infections-cause-alzheimer-s-small-community-researchers-determined-find-out as the woman mentioned in the NS article runs AlzPI.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

PS a number of YT videos popped up when I searched her name, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrdIwH_WZ3k