By Kevin Gray — 2017
I saw spiritual attainment and I thought, ‘That does not need to be religious. That can be scientific.’
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CLEAR ALL
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.
Autoimmunity—which affects three quarters more women than it does men—encompasses a range of conditions and diseases that involve the immune system mistakenly attacking the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells.
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