How A Parasite Can Rewire Your Brain And Change Your Behavior
" Mind - control parasite " might sound like the baddie from a consecutive - to - TV horror movie , but that ’s a fairly exact description ofToxoplasma gondii . The individual - celled being is thought to be one of the most common parasites in the worldly concern , infecting up to40 millionpeople in the US , allot to theCDC . While most infections are believed to be symptomless – andsome researchargues its effect are overstated – it has been linked to a wide variety of behavior changes in man and other brute , include increasedsuicide rates , schizophrenia , andrisk - take behaviour ....