Decrease of psychomotor performance in subjects with latent 'asymptomatic' toxoplasmosis.

Abstract

This is the first study confirming the existence of such parasite-induced changes in human behaviour that could be considered in evolutionary history of the human species as adaptive from the point of view of parasite transmission.

Keywords

• manipulation hypothesis
• parasite
• human
• reaction times
• Toxoplasma gondii
• behaviour
• evolution
• Rattus-Norvegicus
• gondii
• infection
• mice
• behavior
• novelty
• series
• mouse
• AIDS
• wild