New Study Links Lymphatic System and Thoughts/Feelings

Hi Soaring,

Great read... (couldn't resist copying some excerpts here).
Thanks for the link :)

Is the lymphatic system lighting the way for these parasites to get into the brain? Even our brains?

Suffice to say, there are likely many connections and interactions between the brain and the immune system which are completely unknown,” she says.

“In the next decade, I think that the collective ‘we’ will be on our way toward achieving an understanding of the neuro-immune system that matches the depth and breadth of our knowledge of the peripheral immune system,” she says. “I hope that we’ll be seeing new ways of using peripheral pathways to hack into brain function and behavior, to treat symptoms of neurological disease.”

But no matter exactly how this work is followed up, neuroscience and immunology now have even greater reason to collaborate. These findings “are going to crack open the chasm of the field of neuroimmunology in a wonderful way,” Ingram says. “Immunologists and neuroscientists have been politely ignoring each other for far too long.”