What is it about?
This article explains how immune reactions to Lyme disease cause psychiatric symptoms.
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Why is it important?
Immune effects caused by Lyme/tick-borne diseases are quite complex and contribute to cognitive impairments, dementia, depression, anxiety, autism, violence and other psychiatric illnesses. This awareness helps prevent many of these conditions. Sir William Osler, the father of American Medicine said—”He who knows syphilis knows medicine.” It can now be said—He who knows Lyme disease knows medicine, neurology, psychiatry, immunology, psychoimmunology, ecology, law, politics, and ethics.
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This article helps us better understand how an infection can cause psychiatric symptoms.
Robert Bransfield
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This page is a summary of: The Psychoimmunology of Lyme/Tick-Borne Diseases and its Association with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, The Open Neurology Journal, October 2012, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1874205x01206010088.
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