Emotion discrimination in humans: Its association with HSV-1 infection and its improvement with antiviral treatment

Herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1) infects over 3.4 billion people, world-wide. Though it can cause encephalitis, in the vast majority it is asymptomatic, with lifelong latent infection in neurons. HSV-1 infected individuals have greater cognitive dysfunction than uninfected individuals, particularly persons with schizophrenia – even without encephalitis. We investigated whether HSV-1 related cognitive dysfunction is progressive or remediable.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - August 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Triptish Bhatia, Joel Wood, Satish Iyengar, Sreelatha S. Narayanan, Ram Pratap Beniwal, Konasale M. Prasad, Kehui Chen, Robert H. Yolken, Faith Dickerson, Ruben C. Gur, Raquel E. Gur, Smita N. Deshpande, Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar Source Type: research