No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females

BACKGROUND: Past research linked Toxoplasma gondii (TG) infection in humans with neurological and mental disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and attention disorders), irregularities of the dopaminergic and testosterone system, and increased likelihood of being involved in traffic acc...

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Autores principales: Lanchava, Lasha, Carlson, Kyle, Šebánková, Blanka, Flegr, Jaroslav, Nave, Gideon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26401912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136716
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author Lanchava, Lasha
Carlson, Kyle
Šebánková, Blanka
Flegr, Jaroslav
Nave, Gideon
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description BACKGROUND: Past research linked Toxoplasma gondii (TG) infection in humans with neurological and mental disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and attention disorders), irregularities of the dopaminergic and testosterone system, and increased likelihood of being involved in traffic accidents. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We test for an association between TG infection and financial decision-making (DM) using a case-control design in a sample of female Czech students (n = 79). We estimate each subject's risk attitude and loss aversion using an experimental economic task involving real monetary incentives. We find no significant evidence that either measure of decision-making is associated with TG infection. CONCLUSION: We were unable to find evidence of an association between TG infection and financial decision-making in females.
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spelling pubmed-45817022015-10-01 No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females Lanchava, Lasha Carlson, Kyle Šebánková, Blanka Flegr, Jaroslav Nave, Gideon PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Past research linked Toxoplasma gondii (TG) infection in humans with neurological and mental disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and attention disorders), irregularities of the dopaminergic and testosterone system, and increased likelihood of being involved in traffic accidents. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We test for an association between TG infection and financial decision-making (DM) using a case-control design in a sample of female Czech students (n = 79). We estimate each subject's risk attitude and loss aversion using an experimental economic task involving real monetary incentives. We find no significant evidence that either measure of decision-making is associated with TG infection. CONCLUSION: We were unable to find evidence of an association between TG infection and financial decision-making in females. Public Library of Science 2015-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4581702/ /pubmed/26401912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136716 Text en © 2015 Lanchava et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Nave, Gideon
No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females
title No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females
title_full No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females
title_fullStr No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females
title_full_unstemmed No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females
title_short No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females
title_sort no evidence of association between toxoplasma gondii infection and financial risk taking in females
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26401912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136716
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