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Stress and microbiota: Between biology and psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2019

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Rasmus Hoffmann Birk*
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Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom. Rasmus.birk@kcl.ac.ukRasmusbirk.org
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Abstract

This comment expands on Hooks et al.’s criticism of the problematic and overly general uses of “stress” within the microbiota-gut-brain field. The comment concludes that, for the microbiota-gut-brain field (as for other fields drawing on “stress”), much work is yet to be done in terms of how we explore and understand biology vis-à-vis psychology.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e65
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