A review of studies of maternal exposure to infectious agents and schizophrenia in their offspring suggests that eliminating certain infections could prevent as many as 30 percent of schizophrenia cases...
“Humans infected with T. gondii will form the same cysts on the brain as are found in infected rodents when high levels of the gene involved in dopamine synthesis are expressed,” McConkey said. “While production of dopamine in the rodents could be an evolutionary mechanism devised by the parasite, in humans it would be merely accidental. But now suddenly, this provides a possible link to the observed correlation of T. gondii with some forms of schizophrenia.”
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