{"id":23928,"date":"2016-03-24T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T03:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/a-brain-parasite-might-be-causing-road-rage"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:49","slug":"a-brain-parasite-might-be-causing-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/a-brain-parasite-might-be-causing-road-rage","title":{"rendered":"A Brain Parasite Might Be Causing Road Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brain-parasite-might-be-causing-road-rage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t yet understand the mechanisms involved \u2014 it could be an increased inflammatory response, direct brain modulation by the parasite, or even reverse causation where aggressive individuals tend to have more cats or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/6-things-a-food-poisoning-expert-wont-eat\/\" target=\"_blank\">eat more undercooked meat<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychiatrist.com\/jcp\/article\/Pages\/2016\/v77n03\/v77n0313.aspx\">study<\/a> looked at 358 adults, and found that chronic latent infection with T. <em>gondii<\/em> is associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/intermittent-explosive-disorder\/basics\/risk-factors\/con-20024309\" target=\"_blank\">intermittent explosive disorder<\/a> and increased aggression. Antibodies were collected between 1991 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>University of Chicago researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-03\/uocm-pwr031816.php\" target=\"_blank\">say<\/a> a parasite commonly spread from cats to humans may play a role in impulsive aggression. Approximately 16 percent of those in a \u201cother psychiatric conditions\u201d organisation had a infection, though reported identical exam scores in charge to a healthy group.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wingatewire.com\/2016\/03\/24\/a-brain-parasite-might-be-causing-road-rage\/\">http:\/\/wingatewire.com\/2016\/03\/24\/a-brain-parasite-might-be-causing-road-rage\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t yet understand the mechanisms involved \u2014 it could be an increased inflammatory response, direct brain modulation by the parasite, or even reverse causation where aggressive individuals tend to have more cats or eat more undercooked meat\u201d. The study looked at 358 adults, and found that chronic latent infection with T. gondii is associated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67921,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions\/67921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}