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Common PET patterns reported are reduced frontal metabolism (“hypofrontality”) and abnormal cortical and subcortical metabolic relationships in schizophrenics and manics, mild frontal hypofrontality and abnormal basal ganglia metabolism in some depressives, and increased parahippocampal and septohippocampal or basal ganglia metabolism among some patients with anxiety disorder (399, 405, 536).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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A small inventory of potential mechanisms could include internalization of a few olfactory receptors important for cat odor detection, alteration in emotional valence of cat odor by brain rewiring, preferential localization of Toxoplasma to brain areas in septohippocampal or amygdalar regions, preferential localization to areas projecting to septohippocampal and amygdalar systems, uniform distribution but some brain regions being more sensitive to neuronal damage by Toxoplasma, and diffusible substances emanating from infected cells or from Toxoplasma.
Brain Parasites 2007
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