date:Jan 09, 2014
brain and gut problems in ASD as their guide, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) were investigating a potentially transformative new therapy for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The research, which was published online in the December issue of the journal Cell, is the first to demonstrate that changes in the gut bacteria can influence autism-like behaviours in a mouse model. The gut microbiota the community of bacteria that populate the human GI tract