Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26135149-20150615110652/@comment-213.66.199.45-20150615120624

^Did you know that schizophrenia can be caused by a parasite?

Insanity.

The parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii, is something that alters the behavior of mice to lose fear for cats so they can get eaten and complete the lifecycle of the parasite in the cat´s digestive system, redoing the cycle again in the feces.

When this parasite infects a human, it gives them toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease, which can be transmitted due to a) eating raw infected meat, b) drinking infected water or c) carry over from mother to its child through the placenta.

(up to over half of the world´s population is infected with this thing, no joke, all facts.)

One of the symptoms for this disease is mental diseases and especially schizophrenia.

It also alters the behavior in people depending on the gender...

The men becomes amoral, have it easier to ignore and throw away the rules and becomes jealous, suspicious, expedient and dogmatic. Have shorter attention spans, turns anti-social,

In women, it turns them warm-hearted, outgoing, conscientious, persistent and moralistic, and friendly and considered a lot more attractive than uninfected women.

In short, it turns men into "alley cats" and women into "sex kittens".

The point is, the parasite is usually kept in check from showing physical symptoms due to the immunesystem, but even then it causes mental and behaviorical changes that could be devestating for a person.

And we all recall how Kaneki turned into a completely different person after thow "Ten Days at Jason´s" place.

Maybe he ate something he shouldn´t or "inherited" the madness from Rize´s Kakuhou... since that woman was clearly not sane to say the least.

Just another parasite motif for Kaneki to go along with.

Parasite-induced schizophrenia.