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People with rage disorder twice as likely to have latent toxoplasmosis parasite infection
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 682978" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>toxoplasma is actually a pretty cool bit of evolution. It's primary host is the cat. </p><p></p><p>It gets into cats by infecting rodents. Once in the rodent, it travels to the brain. In the rodent's brain, it changes functioning so that the rodent is no longer instinctively afraid of the scent of cat urine.</p><p></p><p>This makes the infected rodent extremely vulnerable to being eaten by a cat, thereby getting the toxoplasma parasite right where it needs to be in order to reproduce.</p><p></p><p>Humans are a dead end host. The parasite can reproduce in our nervous system, but cannot make it back to our digestive system so it can be shed to continue the life cycle.</p><p></p><p>Toxoplasma is why for many years they have been saying that women who are or are planning to become, pregnant, should not have contact with cats' litter pans, and should avoid gardening as everyone knows stray and feral cats love to toilet in dug up soil.</p><p></p><p>Rage and agression are controlled by much the same primitive areas of the brain as those that control fear, so it's not surprising that those centers are affected in humans.</p><p></p><p>I should be interested in immune and receptor studies in those individuals displaying rage syndromes who also show active t.gondii infection. I suspect it takes more than just infection with t.gondii to cause those effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 682978, member: 1963"] toxoplasma is actually a pretty cool bit of evolution. It's primary host is the cat. It gets into cats by infecting rodents. Once in the rodent, it travels to the brain. In the rodent's brain, it changes functioning so that the rodent is no longer instinctively afraid of the scent of cat urine. This makes the infected rodent extremely vulnerable to being eaten by a cat, thereby getting the toxoplasma parasite right where it needs to be in order to reproduce. Humans are a dead end host. The parasite can reproduce in our nervous system, but cannot make it back to our digestive system so it can be shed to continue the life cycle. Toxoplasma is why for many years they have been saying that women who are or are planning to become, pregnant, should not have contact with cats' litter pans, and should avoid gardening as everyone knows stray and feral cats love to toilet in dug up soil. Rage and agression are controlled by much the same primitive areas of the brain as those that control fear, so it's not surprising that those centers are affected in humans. I should be interested in immune and receptor studies in those individuals displaying rage syndromes who also show active t.gondii infection. I suspect it takes more than just infection with t.gondii to cause those effects. [/QUOTE]
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