CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Dan Barth (Behavioral Neuroscience) and postdoctoral researcher (and CU PhD) Zach Smith were in the news, getting interviewed for an article in ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Today 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 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 ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Today article, or read the published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.