Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis

Schneider, Elizabeth; O’Riordan, Kenneth J.; Clarke, Gerard; Cryan, John F.

doi:10.1038/s42255-024-01108-6

Nat Metab

2024

DOI: 10.1038/s42255-024-01108-6

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Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis

Elizabeth Schneider,

Kenneth J. O’Riordan,

Gerard Clarke

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The Intersection of Ultra-Processed Foods, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and Neurolaw: Implications for Criminal Justice

Prescott,

Holton,

Lowry

et al. 2024

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Over the last decade there has been increasing interest in the links between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and various neuropsychiatric disorders, aggression, and antisocial behavior. Neurolaw is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to translate the rapid and voluminous advances in brain science into legal decisions and policy. An enhanced understanding of biophysiological mechanisms by which ultra-processed foods influence brain and behavior allows for a historical reexamination of one of forensic neuropsychiatry’s most famous cases—The People v. White and its associated ‘Twinkie Defense’. Here in this Viewpoint article, we pair original court transcripts with emergent research in neurolaw, including nutritional neuroscience, microbiome sciences (legalome), pre-clinical mechanistic research, and clinical intervention trials. Advances in neuroscience, and related fields such as the microbiome, are challenging basic assumptions in the criminal justice system, including notions of universal free will. Recent dismissals of criminal charges related to auto-brewery syndrome demonstrate that courts are open to advances at the intersection of neuromicrobiology and nutritional neuroscience, including those that relate to criminal intent and diminished capacity. As such, it is our contention that experts in the neurosciences will play an increasing role in shaping research that underpins 21st-century courtroom discourse, policy, and decision-making.

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The Intersection of Ultra-Processed Foods, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and Neurolaw: Implications for Criminal Justice

Prescott,

Holton,

Lowry

et al. 2024

NeuroSci

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Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis

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The Intersection of Ultra-Processed Foods, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and Neurolaw: Implications for Criminal Justice

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