April 07, 2025
Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability
… Neuroimmune interactions amygdala cerebral cortex autism social behavior New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds … a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and one of the senior authors of the studies. “If … effects in worms, IL-17 promotes aggregation, a form of social behavior. Additionally, in mammals, IL-17E is actually …

