• Programming bugs: microbiota and the developmental origins of brain health and disease 

  Codagnone, Martin G.; Spichak, Simon; O'Mahony, Siobhain M.; O'Leary, Olivia F.; Clarke, Gerard; Stanton, Catherine; Dinan, Timothy G.; Cryan, John F. (Elsevier, 2018-06-27)

  It has been nearly 30 years since Dr. David Barker first highlighted the importance of prenatal factors in contributing to the developmental origins of adult disease. This concept was later broadened to include postnatal ...
• Differential effects of adolescent and adult-initiated exercise on cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis 

  O'Leary, James D.; Hoban, Alan E.; Murphy, Ashley; O'Leary, Olivia F.; Cryan, John F.; Nolan, Yvonne M. (Wiley, 2019-09-22)

  Adolescence is a critical period for postnatal brain maturation and thus a time when environmental influences may affect cognitive processes in later life. Exercise during adulthood has been shown to increase hippocampal ...
• Annual Research Review: Critical windows – the microbiota–gut–brain axis in neurocognitive development 

  Cowan, Caitlin S. M.; Dinan, Timothy G.; Cryan, John F. (Wiley, 2019-11-26)

  The gut microbiota is a vast, complex, and fascinating ecosystem of microorganisms that resides in the human gastrointestinal tract. As an integral part of the microbiota–gut–brain axis, it is now being recognized that the ...
• The role of the microbiota in acute stress-induced myeloid immune cell trafficking 

  van de Wouw, Marcel; Lyte, Joshua M.; Boehme, Marcus; Sichetti, Marzia; Moloney, Gerard; Goodson, Michael S.; Kelley-Loughnane, Nancy; Dinan, Timothy G.; Clarke, Gerard; Cryan, John F. (Elsevier, 2019-12-05)

  There has been a growing recognition of the involvement of the gastrointestinal microbiota in the development of stress-related disorders. Acute stress leads to activation of neuroendocrine systems, which in turn orchestrate ...
• The association between caesarean section and cognitive ability in childhood 

  Hanrahan, Michael; McCarthy, Fergus P.; O'Keeffe, Gerard W.; Khashan, Ali S. (Springer, 2019-10-22)

  Purpose: Global rates of caesarean section (CS) rates have increased rapidly in recent years. This is a growing public health concern as it has been proposed that CS may impact cognitive outcomes in childhood. However, the ...

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