Main description:

The Gut-Brain Axis: Dietary, Probiotic, and Prebiotic Interventions on the Microbiota, Second Edition presents the most advances on how the gut microbiome influences central nervous system and brain function introduced in the first edition. The book also describes how environmental influences which affect the microbiota, including, diet, exercise, and early-life, impact on the gut-brain axis.

The second edition contains new chapters on metabolomics and the gut-brain-axis; dietary factors in the maintenance of a healthy brain ; the role of gut microbes in neurodegenerative disorders; the link between exercise and the gut-brain-axis; and infant Nutrition, the microbiome and neurodevelopment. In addition, the second edition presents coverage of mechanisms underlying neurological disease; approaches to investigate the role of the microbiome in brain and behavior, and 'next generation' probiotics and prebiotics.

The Gut-Brain Axis: Dietary, Probiotic, and Prebiotic Interventions on the Microbiota, Second Edition continues to be the "go-to" resource for further exploration of the microbiota.

Contents:

1. Correlating the Gut Microbiome to Health and Disease
2. Altering the Gut Microbiome for Cognitive Benefit?
3. The Microbiome in Aging Impact on Health and Wellbeing
4. Germ-Free Animals A Key Tool in Unraveling How the Microbiota Affects the Brain and Behavior
5. Gut Microbiota and Metabolism
6. Probiotics as Curators of a Healthy Gut Microbiota Delivering the Solution
7. Regulatory Considerations for the Use and Marketing of Probiotics and Functional Foods
8. Importance of the Microbiota in Early Life and Influence on Future Health
9. The Influence of Diet and the Gut Microbiota in Schizophrenia
10. Alcohol-Dependence and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
11. Targeting the Microbiota Considerations for Developing Probiotics as Functional Foods
12. A Role for the Microbiota in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
13. Influence of the Microbiota on the Development and Function of the "Second Brain" The Enteric Nervous System
14. Dietary Interventions and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
15. Global and Epidemiological Perspectives on Diet and Mood - may need to review title to one more mechanistic or relating to dietary interventions
16. Reflection on psychobiotics, translation and future perspectives on manipulating the microbiome to modulate the gut-brain-axis
17. Microbial Endocrinology Context and Considerations for Probiotic Selection
18. Metabolomics and the Gut-Brain-Axis
19. Dietary polyphenols to maintain healthier brain measures and cognitive function, as mediated by gut microbiota metabolites
20. Parkinson's disease: Are gut microbes involved?
21. Exercise and the Brain-Gut-Axis
22. Infant Nutrition, the Microbiome and Neurodevelopment