This exciting new volume examines the contemporary evidence that has been found to examine novel relationships between the manifestation of mental illness across broad categories including depression and schizophrenia and the potential to use probiotics therapeutic optimism.

Colin R. Martin is Professor at Faculty of Society and Health, Buckinghamshire New University.

Dr Derek Larkin is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Edge Hill University.

Introduction: Probiotics and Psychopathology. Probiotics and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Probiotics, Mood, and Exercise. Impact of Probiotics on Communication Between the Brain-Gut. Implications for the Treatment of the Psychological Effects of Digestive Disease States. Probiotics and Their Effect on Maternal and Neonatal Health. Mechanisms of Action of Probiotics in Psychopathology. Probiotics and Eating Disorders. Probiotics and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Probiotics and Depression. Probiotics and Alcohol Dependency. Probiotics and their Potential Effects on Schizophrenia Symptoms. Probiotics and Alzheimer's Disease. Probiotics and Alzheimer's Disease. The probiotics evidence-base: Improving quality through innovation in research methodologies. Foreword. Editors biography. Acknowledgements.