Antibiotics disrupt development of the ‘social brain’ in mice

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 14:40 in Health & Medicine

Antibiotic treatment in early life seems to impede brain signalling pathways that function in social behaviour and pain regulation in mice, a new study by Dr Katerina Johnson and Dr Philip Burnet has found. It was published today in BMC Neuroscience. Katerina Johnson, from the University’s Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, was researching the effects […]

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