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New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses

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Tags: biology.micro, studies, guts, author.elena renken, source.quanta magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-microbiomes-affect-fear-20191204/

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How Microbiomes Affect Fear | Quanta Magazine
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    There's another possible explanatory mechanism - the microbial products aren't modifying behavior so much as the immune response to the microbes. There's evidence for this model with toxoplasmosis.

    There's another possible explanatory mechanism - the microbial products aren't modifying behavior so much as the immune response to the microbes.

    There's evidence for this model with toxoplasmosis.

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