This Is Your Brain On Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

by Kathleen McAuliffe

WE LIKE TO THINK of ourselves as in the driver’s seat, choosing where to go, whether to speed up or slow down, when to switch lanes. We make the decisions and bear the consequences. This is a convenient, even necessary

vampires, and sex-crazed robots are standard sci-fi fare precisely because they evoke the horror of losing control or, worse, becoming slaves to creatures bent on exploiting us for their own gain. So it’s disconcerting to think that an invisible