Contrasting Effect of Prepulse Signals on Performance of Toxoplasma-Infected and Toxoplasma-Free Subjects in an Acoustic Reaction Times Test
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F14%3A10287281" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/14:10287281 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112771" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112771</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112771" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0112771</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contrasting Effect of Prepulse Signals on Performance of Toxoplasma-Infected and Toxoplasma-Free Subjects in an Acoustic Reaction Times Test
Original language description
Background: About 30% of people on Earth have latent toxoplasmosis. Infected subjects do not express any clinical symptoms, however, they carry dormant stages of parasite Toxoplasma for the rest of their life. This form of toxoplasmosis is mostly considered harmless, however, recent studies showed its specific effects on physiology, behaviour and its associations with various diseases, including psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Individuals who suffer from schizophrenia have about 2.7 times higher prevalence of Toxoplasma-seropositivity than controls, which suggests that some traits characteristic of schizophrenic patients, including the sex difference in schizophrenia onset, decrease of grey matter density in specific brain areas and modification of prepulse inhibition of startle reaction could in fact be caused by toxoplasmosis for those patients who are Toxoplasma-seropositive. Methodology/Principal Findings: We measured the effect of prepulse inhibition/facilitation of t
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP303%2F11%2F1398" target="_blank" >GAP303/11/1398: Startle reaction and prepulse inhibition in human with latent toxoplasmosis</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS ONE
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1-7
UT code for WoS article
000344816700094
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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