{"id":211900,"date":"2025-04-20T09:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gut-brain-link-may-affect-behavior-in-children-with-autism"},"modified":"2025-04-20T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:03:48","slug":"gut-brain-link-may-affect-behavior-in-children-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gut-brain-link-may-affect-behavior-in-children-with-autism","title":{"rendered":"Gut-brain link may affect behavior in children with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-brain-link-may-affect-behavior-in-children-with-autism2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system\u2014ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing behavioral symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, adds to a growing body of science implicating the \u201cgut-brain\u201d axis in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/autism\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autism<\/a>. The discovery raises the possibility of new treatment avenues. It\u2019s an example of how research at USC, and other universities, drives innovation and leads to discoveries that improve lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demonstrated that gut metabolites impact the brain, and the brain, in turn, affects behavior. Essentially, the brain acts as the intermediary between gut health and autism-related behaviors,\u201d said first author Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, a professor at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system\u2014ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing behavioral symptoms. The research, published in Nature Communications, adds to a growing body of science implicating the \u201cgut-brain\u201d axis in autism. The discovery raises the possibility of new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}