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Cytokine secretion linked to emotional and cognitive disturbances
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010522-03
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Animal studies show that cytokine mediated illnesses — for example infectious, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases — are associated with behavioural changes. But the underlying mechanisms in humans have not yet been established. In the May Archives of General Psychiatry Abraham Reichenberg and colleagues from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel show that in humans the level of circulating cytokines may influence not only emotional state but cognitive function as well.
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