Humans as Superorganisms
@article{Kramer2015HumansAS, title={Humans as Superorganisms}, author={P. Kramer and P. Bressan}, journal={Perspectives on Psychological Science}, year={2015}, volume={10}, pages={464 - 481} }
Psychologists and psychiatrists tend to be little aware that (a) microbes in our brains and guts are capable of altering our behavior; (b) viral DNA that was incorporated into our DNA millions of years ago is implicated in mental disorders; (c) many of us carry the cells of another human in our brains; and (d) under the regulation of viruslike elements, the paternally inherited and maternally inherited copies of some genes compete for domination in the offspring, on whom they have opposite… CONTINUE READING
Paper Mentions
33 Citations
Microbes and the Mind: How Bacteria Shape Affect, Neurological Processes, Cognition, Social Relationships, Development, and Pathology
- Biology, Medicine
- Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
- 2019
- 9
The Microbiome in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 2018
- 56
Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind
- Medicine
- Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
- 2018
- 13
- PDF
The human-microbiome superorganism and its modulation to restore health
- Biology, Medicine
- International journal of food sciences and nutrition
- 2019
- 20
Rhamnolipids, Microbial Virulence Factors, in Alzheimer's Disease.
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
- 2017
- 17
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 165 REFERENCES
An epigenetic hypothesis for human brain laterality, handedness, and psychosis development.
- Medicine, Biology
- Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology
- 2004
- 25
- PDF
The imprinted brain: how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis.
- Biology, Medicine
- Epigenomics
- 2011
- 36
- PDF
The role of imprinted genes in mediating susceptibility to neuropsychiatric disorders
- Psychology, Medicine
- Hormones and Behavior
- 2011
- 30
Can we understand modern humans without considering pathogens?
- Biology, Medicine
- Evolutionary applications
- 2012
- 24
- PDF
Latent Toxoplasmosis gondii: emerging evidence for influences on neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences
- 2012
- 23
Importance of the matriline for genomic imprinting, brain development and behaviour
- Biology, Medicine
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2013
- 43
- Highly Influential
- PDF
The Neurotropic Parasite Toxoplasma Gondii Increases Dopamine Metabolism
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 2011
- 329
- PDF