Does Toxoplasma infection increase sexual masochism and submissiveness? Yes and no

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10371287" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10371287 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00023752:_____/17:43919346
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889" target="_blank" >10.1080/19420889</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does Toxoplasma infection increase sexual masochism and submissiveness? Yes and no
Original language description
The parasite Toxoplasma needs to get from its intermediate hosts, e.g. rodents, to its de fi nitive hosts, cats, by predation. To increase the probability of this occurrence, Toxoplasma manipulates the behavior of its hosts, for example, by the demethylation of promoters of certain genes in the host ' s amygdala. After this modi fi cation, the stimuli that normally activate fear-related circuits, e.g., the smell of a cat in mice, or smell of leopards in chimpanzees, start to additionally co-activate sexual arousal-related circuits in the infected animals. In humans, the increased attraction to masochistic sexual practices was recently observed in a study performed on 36,564 subjects. Here I show that lower rather than higher attraction to sexual masochism and submissiveness among infected subjects is detected if simple univariate tests instead of multivariate tests are applied to the same data. I show and discuss that when analyzing multiple effects of complex stimuli on complex biological systems we need to use multivariate techniques and very large data sets. We must also accept the fact that any single factor usually explains only a small fraction of variability in the focal variable.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-20958S" target="_blank" >GA16-20958S: The role of raising cats and dogs and of their infections in development of clinical and subclinical forms of depression, OCD, phobias and psychoses</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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