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Crazy cat people, take note: if your family owned a cat as a child, you can file this under News that makes you breathe a sigh of relief. You can cancel that appointment with the shrink.
Read more at ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cats-mental-illness-toxoplasma_us_58adc06ae4b03d80af714072Living with a cat during childhood does not cause mental illness later in life, a new study from University College London suggests, disputing earlier studies that caused alarm by linking cats to human mental illness.
We found that children who were born and raised in households that included cats at any time period that is, pregnancy, early and late childhood were not at a higher risk of having psychotic symptoms when they were 13 or 18 years old, researchers wrote in The Conversation. The study was published in the journal Psychological Medicine on Wednesday.