Gut-brain connection and how inflammatory bowel disease may relate to memory and thinking problems

Inflammatory bowel disease may contribute to dementia risk through gut dysbiosis, systemic inflammation, and neuroinflammation along the gut-brain axis.

Perspective article discussing mechanistic links between inflammatory bowel disease, gut dysbiosis, systemic inflammation, neuroinflammation, and dementia.

It reports no new patient data and states that the precise mechanism linking IBD and dementia remains elusive.