Bifidobacterium plantarum and Improved Social Emotional Cognition

• Gut-brain axis in adolescent depression: a systematic review of psychological implications and behavioral interventions.

  • 2025-09-04
  • Review
  • Frontiers in nutrition 12
  • • Haitao Liu
    • Xiaoli Li
    • Ying Shi
    • Ke Hong
    • Xing Wang
    • Congfu Huang

  • PubMed: 40977983
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1644245

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Social Emotional Cognition

  • Low evidence

  Psychobiotics (e.g., Lactobacillus plantarum PS128) significantly reduced depressive symptoms ... and improved emotion recognition (+18%; 95% CI: 2.1, 33.9).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes