CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Dan Barth (Behavioral Neuroscience)聽and postdoctoral researcher (and聽CU PhD)聽Zach Smith were in the news, getting interviewed for an article in聽CU 麻豆影院 Today聽about some recent research demonstrating that prenatal exposure to good bacteria might prevent the development of an autism-like disorder in rats. Using a rat model, they had previously shown that administration of a聽drug (terbutaline) commonly used to delay preterm labor in humans resulted in rat offspring exibiting signs of an autism-like disorder. In the present research they were able to block this effect by giving the rat mothers the "good" bacterium M. vaccae. Read more about this research in the CU 麻豆影院 Today article, or read the published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.