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21 sie 2023 · This review focuses less on the diseases that neuroparasites induce and more on the process of their neurological manipulation. We also investigate the fundamental mechanisms of host manipulation in the developing field of neuroparasitology, which blends neuroscience and parasitology.
22 lut 2018 · The IDSA and the ASTMH convened experts in the diagnosis and management of NCC from the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, neurology, and neurosurgery, including experts coming from endemic areas as well as from North America.
The typical clinical and radiological findings of nervous system infection by selected cestodes, trematodes, and protozoans will be reviewed (Table 1). Treatment of these infections varies greatly, from symptomatic management to surgical extraction.
The emerging field of neuroparasitology deals with the multiple ways in which parasites can control host’s nervous system and modify the behavioural pattern of the host. [ 1, 2] The preliminary evidence of this phenomenon has come primarily through study of insects parasitized with another insect species (e.g., jewel wasp parasitizing cockroach)...
1 maj 2018 · While mind-control may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, the phenomenon is very real—and has spawned a new field, neuro-parasitology.
30 kwi 2018 · Neuro-parasitology is an emerging branch of science that deals with parasites that can control the nervous system of the host. It offers the possibility of discovering how one species (the parasite) modifies a particular neural network, and thus particular behaviors, of another species (the host).
1 sty 2013 · What T. gondii does to manipulate its rodent host is highly germane, as it appears to be doing the same thing in human brains. Papers in this issue present evidence that T. gondii also alters human behaviour and may be involved in the etiology of serious mental disorders such as schizophrenia.
