Coaching und Beratung Koblenz – Psychologie, Psyche, Gehirn, Immunsystem – Beeinflusst das Immunsystem unser soziales Verhalten?
In einer überraschenden Entdeckung, die grundsätzliche Fragen über das menschliche Verhalten aufwirft, haben Forscher der Universität Virginia (http://www.virginia.edu/) festgestellt, dass das Immunsystem direkt das soziale Verhalten von Tieren beeinflussen – und sogar – kontrollieren kann, etwa: den Wunsch mit anderen zu interagieren.
Shocking New Role Found for the Immune System: Controlling Social Interactions
In a startling discovery that raises fundamental questions about human behavior, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the immune system directly affects – and even controls – creatures’ social behavior, such as their desire to interact with others.
So could immune system problems contribute to an inability to have normal social interactions? The answer appears to be yes, and that finding could have significant implications for neurological diseases such as autism-spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.
“The brain and the adaptive immune system were thought to be isolated from each other, and any immune activity in the brain was perceived as sign of a pathology. And now, not only are we showing that they are closely interacting, but some of our behavior traits might have evolved because of our immune response to pathogens,” explained Jonathan Kipnis, chair of UVA’s Department of Neuroscience. “It’s crazy, but maybe we are just multicellular battlefields for two ancient forces: pathogens and the immune system. Part of our personality may actually be dictated by the immune system.”
It was only last year that Kipnis, the director of UVA’s Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, and his team discovered that meningeal vessels directly link the brain with the lymphatic system. That overturned decades of textbook teaching that the brain was “immune privileged,” lacking a direct connection to the immune system. The discovery opened the door for entirely new ways of thinking about how the brain and the immune system interact.
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