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People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear (www.pnas.org)
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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Oh great, we've taken a perfectly good mouse and given it social anxiety! :(

(Sarcasm/joking aside, this is pretty neat and hopefully this research eventually ends up helping people with social anxiety)