Toxoplasma infection may be a risk factor for manifestation of psychotic-like symptoms

It's been a while since I last talked about  Toxoplasma gondii on this blog ( see here ). All the initial research excitement from a fe...

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ALSPAC says no to cat ownership - psychosis risk hypothesis but...

" While pregnant women should continue to avoid handling soiled cat litter, given possible T. gondii exposure, our study strongly indi...

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The neuropathology linking T. gondii infection and schizophrenia?

A quote to begin: " findings suggest that T gondii  [ Toxoplasma gondii ]  infection causes substantial and widespread immune activatio...

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T. gondii infection and autism?

I was interested to read the paper by Joseph Prandota and colleagues [1] who observed that: " latent chronic T. gondii  [ Toxoplasma g...

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Gastrointestinal inflammation and immune activation in bipolar disorder

I want to take you back to a post I published back in April 2012 ( see here ) on some very interesting work coming out of the Stanley Divisi...

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Suicidal behaviour in autism

The paper by Hannon and Taylor * was the starting point for today's post looking at suicidal behaviour among people diagnosed as being ...

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Schizophrenia and C-reactive protein

Discussions on the various studies hinting at a possible connection between inflammation (however you wish to define this) and autism, at l...

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