Gut-brain axis: Study uncovers microbiota differences in impulsive and non-impulsive female convicts

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Gut-brain axis: Study uncovers microbiota differences in impulsive and non-impulsive female convicts

A study comparing impulsively violent female convicts with age-matched non-impulsive female convicts identified four groups of bacterial species with differing abundances between the two groups. Genera Bacteroides, Barnesiella, and the order Rhodospirillales were more abundant in impulsive women, while bacteria from the genus Catenisphaera were more abundant in non-impulsive women. The research was published in Neuropsychobiology. Impulsivity re…