Wednesday, February 22, 2012

How your cat is making you crazy

Toxoplasmosis, the subject of today's lecture, is cropping up on news websites lately as people pick up on an article published in the Atlantic magazine:
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? 

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