Effect of probiotic supplementation on schizophrenia symptoms and association with gastrointestinal functioning: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dickerson, Faith B ^a   Stallings, Cassie ^a   Origoni, Andrea ^a   Katsafanas, Emily ^a   Savage, Christina L G ^a   Schweinfurth, Lucy A B ^a   Goga, Joshana ^a   Khushalani, Sunil ^a   Yolken, Robert H ^b  

^a SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; ASENAPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOZAPINE; HALOPERIDOL; OLANZAPINE; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; VALPROIC ACID; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PSYCHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STOMACH DISEASE;

EID: 84897929745     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: 1555211X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.13m01579     Document Type: Article

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