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The Nose / Gut / Brain Boogie Just a touch of my favorite subject, from the bottomless well of academia. Peddling influence, like everybody else See?  I've been telling you* stuff like this: (Go ahead, have a linking extravaganza.) Recent studies have focused on the role of gut microbiota in modulation of the enteric and central nervous system functions, including behaviour (Bravo  et al .,  2011 ; Foster & McVey Neufeld,  2013 ; Mayer, Tillisch & Gupta,  2015 ; Forsythe  et al .,  2016 ; Sarkar  et al .,  2016 ). This rapidly emerging field employs classical psychological tests of behaviour to begin to understand better how the gut microbiome and the brain interact in health and in models of disease (Collins,  2014 ; Mayer  et al .,  2015 ; Sarkar  et al .,  2016 ). Many of these tests involve assessment of social behaviour and interaction (Tarr  et al .,  2015 ; McKim  et al .,  2016 ; Bharwani  et al .,  2017 ,  2016 ) and it has come to our attention onl