Toxoplasmosis, Behavior, and Cognition
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10497950" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10497950 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192870414.003.0015" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192870414.003.0015</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192870414.003.0015" target="_blank" >10.1093/oso/9780192870414.003.0015</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Toxoplasmosis, Behavior, and Cognition
Original language description
For nearly 50 years, Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite of cats, has been known to affect its intermediate hosts’ behavior and cognitive functions. In the past 30 years, dozens of studies have shown that nearly all behavioral changes observed initially in infected rodents can also be detected in human hosts. We already know that Toxoplasma-infected and non-infected humans differ in personality profile, behavior in ethological tests and experimental games, reaction times, speed of information processing, intelligence, and memory. Most probably, changes in the concentration of some neurotransmitters, specifically dopamine, hormones, specifically testosterone, and metabolites of tryptophan, play a proximal role in the Toxoplasma-associated changes. Latent, probably lifelong, toxoplasmosis affecting about one-third of the human population worldwide has many adverse effects on physical and mental health of infected people. However, only some of the behavioral changes observed in infected individuals represent side effects of the poor health of infected hosts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-20785S" target="_blank" >GA22-20785S: Effects of toxoplasma and CMV infection on cognitive performance – longitudinal, cross-sectional, and case-control studies</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Infectious Diseases in Neurocognitive and Neuropsychiatric Medicine
ISBN
978-0-19-287041-4
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
208-228
Number of pages of the book
496
Publisher name
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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