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Cysticercosis (pork tapeworm) can cause marked personality changes in humans when cysts form in the brain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis http://en

• time_management 18y ago
  True, but what makes a creature like the gordian worm more interesting is that there's a reproductive benefit, for the parasite, inherent to the behavioral changes induced. Do the pork tapeworms benefit by causing this problem in humans, or is it just an incidental side effect? It seems to me to be the latter.
• jcl 18y ago
  Same for toxoplasmosis, although the behavioral changes in humans appear to be secondary to the changes in mice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Behavioral_changes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Behavioral_change...
• river_styx 18y ago
  I think I saw that on an episode of House M.D.
  • jcl 18y ago
    As the Wikipedia article notes, it was the pilot episode.