Abstract:During acute infection our behavior tends to change. Despite how common sickness behavior is, its molecular basis is not well understood. In a study published in Cell, Kim and colleagues (Meisel et al., 2014) implicate bacterial secondary metabolites as triggers of neural TGF-? signaling, which results in behavioral change during infection.
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