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Title: Scientists Find Stronger Evidence For Link Between Cat Faeces And Schizophrenia
Source: Science Daily
URL Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060125082853.htm
Published: Dec 15, 2006
Author: Imperial College London
Post Date: 2006-12-15 18:43:43 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 539
Comments: 17

Scientists Find Stronger Evidence For Link Between Cat Faeces And Schizophrenia

Researchers have found stronger evidence for a link between a parasite in cat faeces and undercooked meat and an increased risk of schizophrenia.

Research published in Procedings of the Royal Society B, shows how the invasion or replication of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in rats may be inhibited by using anti-psychotic or mood stabilising drugs.

The researchers tested anti-psychotic and mood stabilising medications used for the treatment of schizophrenia on rats infected with T. gondii and found they were as, or more, effective at preventing behaviourial alterations as anti-T. gondii drugs. This led them to believe that T. gondii may have a role in the development of some cases of schizophrenia.

Dr Joanne Webster from Imperial College London, and lead researcher said: "Although we are certainly not saying that exposure to this parasite does definitely lead to the development of schizophrenia, this and previous studies do show there may be a link in a few individuals, providing new clues for how we treat toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia."

Previous epidemiological and neuropathological studies have indicated some cases of schizophrenia may be associated with environmental factors, such as exposure to the parasite T. gondii. At the same time several of the medications used to treat schizophrenia have been shown to posess anti-parasitic and in particular anti-T.gondii properties. This led the authors to suspect that the anti-psychotic activity of these medications may be due in part to their inhibition of these parasites.

When the rats were given Haloperidol, an anti-psychotic, and Valporic acid, a mood stabiliser, the behavioural symptoms of T.gondii were reduced. They found the drugs were able to limit the 'suicidal feline' attraction by which the rats became less aware of the dangers of cats.

Dr Joanne Webster added: "By showing that drugs used to treat schizophrenia affect the parasite T. gondii, this does provide further evidence for its role in the development of some cases schizophrenia. It may be that anti-psychotic drugs work partly by parasite inhibition, and this could lead to new medicine and treatment combinations."

The researchers have already begun human clinical trials using anti-T. gondii treatments as adjunct therapies for schizophrenia with researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

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#1. To: Zipporah (#0) (Edited)

It may be that anti-psychotic drugs work partly by parasite inhibition, and this could lead to new medicine and treatment combinations."

Creepy crawly things that go bump in our heads?

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973

robin  posted on  2006-12-15   18:46:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: robin (#1)

Creepy crawly things that go bump in our heads?

Thought this was very interesting.. Hmm does GW own a cat or several? :P

Zipporah  posted on  2006-12-15   18:47:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Zipporah (#0)

Scientists Find Stronger Evidence For Link Between Cat Faeces And Schizophrenia

I wondered why cats were so moody.

(The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only true good news)

Starwind  posted on  2006-12-15   18:58:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Starwind (#3)

I wondered why cats were so moody.

Now the cheshire cat makes more sense :P

Zipporah  posted on  2006-12-15   19:10:03 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Zipporah (#0)

I smoked cat shit for years before I became a bot. It never hurt me.

ROTFLOL!!

Kooks!!

BAC  posted on  2006-12-15   19:23:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: BAC (#5)

I smoked cat shit for years before I became a bot. It never hurt me.

ROTFLOL!!

Kooks!!

ROFLMAO!! Hmm now this does explain a LOT! :P

Zipporah  posted on  2006-12-15   19:24:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Starwind (#3)

I wondered why cats were so moody.

I wondered why dogs were so loyal.

The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country who, if they add something to the culture, take much from its strength. Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals. They come from the acceptance of defeatist doctrines by a large portion of our politicians. But what have they to offer but a vague internationalism, a squalid materialism, and the promise of impossible utopias?
Winston Churchill

Tauzero  posted on  2006-12-15   19:33:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Zipporah (#0)

One limitation of the study is that it is not necessarily generalizable to non-white wild rats.

The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country who, if they add something to the culture, take much from its strength. Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals. They come from the acceptance of defeatist doctrines by a large portion of our politicians. But what have they to offer but a vague internationalism, a squalid materialism, and the promise of impossible utopias?
Winston Churchill

Tauzero  posted on  2006-12-15   19:44:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Zipporah (#0)

Many years ago medical researchers thought almost all diseases were due to repeated or chronic infections. That theory fell out of favor, and now, thankfully, is coming back into vogue.

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-12-15   20:19:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: BAC (#5)

That was some good stuff, huh?

ImStillStupid  posted on  2006-12-15   23:18:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: ImStillStupid (#10)

why are you still stupid?

christine  posted on  2006-12-15   23:53:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: ImStillStupid (#10)

hat was some good stuff, huh?

ROTFLOL!!

BAC  posted on  2006-12-16   0:00:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Zipporah (#0)

That is reason eighteen to stop eating cat shit. If I hear just two more negatives, I'm quiting.

.......
“Why should they, the Americans, have trusted us? We were a bunch of Russians, socialist Russians.” -- Isser Harel, former head of Mossad, speaking of the unlikely union between America and the Marxist state of Israel.

wakeup  posted on  2006-12-16   0:07:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: wakeup (#13)

LOL !!!

christine  posted on  2006-12-16   0:08:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: christine (#14)

Best selling book:

How To Stop Eating Cat Shit In Eighteen Easy Steps.

.......
“Why should they, the Americans, have trusted us? We were a bunch of Russians, socialist Russians.” -- Isser Harel, former head of Mossad, speaking of the unlikely union between America and the Marxist state of Israel.

wakeup  posted on  2006-12-16   0:36:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: christine (#11)

why are you still stupid?

Cuz I think I'm still right.

ImStillStupid  posted on  2006-12-16   2:13:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Zipporah (#0)

Cats are evil.

Mark

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Kamala  posted on  2006-12-16   5:32:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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