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Poor kid. Glad the ordeal is over. Mind/body. It's one system. Of course issues with one impact the other. However--Not all mental disease is caused by infect
by mellavora 12y ago
Poor kid. Glad the ordeal is over.
Mind/body. It's one system. Of course issues with one impact the other.
However--Not all mental disease is caused by infection. Schizophrenia, for example, is associated with a number of abnormalities in brain structure.
- wusher 12y agoRecent research is showing a link forming between Schizophrenia and Toxoplasmosis infections. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/11/03-0143_article http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/11/03-0143_article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
- tim333 12y agoSchizophrenia's a complex one. It seems to be associated with human endogenous retrovirus-W (HERV-W): >Several other studies have since found similar active elements of HERV-W in the blood or brain fluids of people with schizophrenia. One, published by Perron in 2008, found HERV-W in the blood of 49 percent of people with schizophrenia, compared with just 4 percent of healthy people. “The more HERV-W they had,” Perron says, “the more inflammation they had.” The odd thing is HERV-W is a viral sequence which entered the human genome many millions of years ago. It is normally suppressed but can cause problems sometimes triggered by other infections. http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus