Folia Parasitologica 72:005 (2025) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2025.005

Special Issue: Thirty years of studying latent toxoplasmosis: behavioural, physiological, and health insights

Jaroslav Flegr ORCID...
Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
Address for correspondence: Faculty of Science, Charles University; Viničná 7, 128 00, Prague, Czechia. E-mail: flegr@cesnet.cz. ORCID: 0000-0002-0822-0126.

In this article, I recount the journey of discovering the effects of latent toxoplasmosis on human psychology, behaviour, morphology, and health as I observed it from the closest perspective over the past 30+ years, during which our laboratory has been intensely focused on this research. I trace how we moved from the initial observations of differences between infected and uninfected individuals in certain personality traits to the systematic study of similar differences in behaviour, both in the laboratory and in everyday life, as well as in physiological and even morphological traits. This eventually led us to investigate the causal relationships behind these observed associations and their molecular basis. I describe some of the unexpected discoveries our research revealed - whether it was the impact of toxoplasmosis on the human sexual index, the prenatal and postnatal development, the sexual preferences and behaviour, the modulatory effect of blood Rh factor on toxoplasmosis, or the discovery of sexual transmission of toxoplasmosis. In exploring whether the toxoplasmosis-associated effects were merely side effects of an ongoing latent infection, we gradually uncovered that seemingly asymptomatic toxoplasmosis has profound (and certainly not positive) effects on the mental and physical health of infected individuals. The article also includes three separate boxes that discuss some key methodological challenges we encountered along the way, such as how to distinguish the effect of infection from mere statistical association, or how to differentiate parasitic manipulation from a simple side effect.

Keywords: Toxoplasma, personality, behaviour, mental health, morbidity, schizophrenia, physical health, chronic toxoplasmosis, sex ratio, Rh factor, dopamine, testosterone, manipulation, parasite.

Received: August 23, 2024; Accepted: November 20, 2024; Published online: January 17, 2025  Show citation

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