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Episode 6: The Microbiome, autism, and serotonin production with Dr. Elaine Hsiao
Episode 6: The Microbiome, autism, and serotonin production with Dr. Elaine Hsiao
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
May 4, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
On this week’s podcast we talked with Dr. Elaine Hsiao from California Institute of Technology. Dr. Hsiao recently started her own laboratory where she studies how the microbes in our gut modulate neural activity and complex behaviors. We talked with Elaine about her most recent paper describing how the microbiome plays a role in regulating serotonin production as well as a paper she published in 2013 describing the microbiome’s connection to regulating autism-related behaviors.
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Released:
May 4, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (11)
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