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Human Microbiome and the Neurological Disorders

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A disease is a multifactorial dysfunction of system that affects the structure and function in an organism. In the same way, neurological disorders are associated with multiple factors like gene overexpression, repression, complete knockout, protein misfolding, metabolic dysfunction, microbial infection, or dysbiosis of microbiome. It is an established fact that several neurodegenerative, neurobehavioural, mental, and metabolic disorders including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, depression, and obesity have been allied to microbiota. Microbiome solely might not be the cause of any disease, but its contribution is significant. The molecular interactions between gut microbiome and nervous system are complex and bidirectional; any alterations in the gut–brain axis might leads to gastrointestinal and neurological disorders. It is easy to manipulate gut microbiome rather than the brain for better therapies, so this chapter deals with microbiome association in development of neurological disorders.

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The author is thankful to Vice Chancellor and Registrar, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India for providing the facilities for ongoing research work and to UGC, Govt. of India for providing financial assistance in the form of DSK postdoctoral fellowship BL/19-20/0302.

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Pamanji, R., Selvin, J. (2023). Human Microbiome and the Neurological Disorders. In: Kothari, V., Kumar, P., Ray, S. (eds) Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics, and Postbiotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1463-0_8

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