Microbiota-derived psychedelics: Lessons from COVID-19.
Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University April 1, 2023 Adonis Sfera, Sabine Hazan, Zisis Kozlakidis et al. 7 citations
Emil Kraepelin believed that dementia praecox, the disorder we now call schizophrenia, was caused by the brain being poisoned with toxins generated in other parts of the body, especially the mouth, intestine or genitals. In this regard, Kraepelin hinted at the microbiome and conceptualized microbial molecules as drivers of severe psychiatric illness. However, it was not until the coronavirus...
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Gut microbes
Serotonergic hallucinogens
Severe psychiatric illness
Gut bacteria
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