This field feels like it's starting to blow up. I'm seeing lots of studies dealing with gut microbiomes. And from talking to a lab developer I know, it seems like this is largely because computing has become super cheap (think AWS), and the tools have become very power and simple to use (think Pandas and Numpy). He was saying that it's become very easy to find patterns in bigger and bigger sets of sequencing data, that previously would have been inscrutable.
It's not necessarily neurological in nature, but one of my favorite papers in the field in the last couple years shows a potential causal relationship between obesity and gut biomes by using artificial sweetener and a fecal transplant in mice.
It's not necessarily neurological in nature, but one of my favorite papers in the field in the last couple years shows a potential causal relationship between obesity and gut biomes by using artificial sweetener and a fecal transplant in mice.
Paywalled version in nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Unpaywalled version after googling: http://www.drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Artif...