Featured Paper of the Month – February 2022
Published in Translational Psychiatry by Daria Piacentino and Lorenzo Leggio, et al. of the NIDA IRP Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section.
Chronic excessive alcohol drinking causes more than 80,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. The gut microbiota, which hosts more than a trillion bacteria, is gaining increasing attention as a potential modulator in neuropsychiatric disorders. Its diversity is fundamental in maintaining homeostasis. There is limited research on the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in alcohol use disorder. Dr. Daria Piacentino and her colleagues address the fundamental question on whether chronic excessive alcohol drinking affects the gut microbiome and metabolome in a baboon model, investigated under rigorous controlled experimental conditions…