By Bruce Bower — 2011
A popular “club drug” promises to open a scientific window on the strange world of out-of-body experiences, researchers say.
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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.