Bacterial Clues in Babys Dirty Diapers Helps Predict Cognitive Development

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A new study in Biological Psychiatry reports a toddler's cognitive development may be predicted by the types of microbes colonizing the gut when they are a year old. Researchers found infants with high levels of Bacteriodes had better scores in cognitive tests at age 2 than those with lower levels of the bacterial genus.

July 17, 2017 at 05:11PM