Lyme Disease and the Brain

Most people mistakenly believe Lyme is a physical disorder not related to the central nervous system and brain. In fact, Lyme is primarily a disease of the brain! Yes, PRIMARILY. This fact needs to be more well-appreciated and widely known and accepted.

This is why I was so excited to see an excellent article in Psychology Today regarding the brain effects of Lyme disease. I highly recommend you check out the article. Very informative. Here is an excerpt:

1993, I spread a map across the living room of our apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, and marked a bull’s-eye at Grand Central Station, where trains come in from the ‘burbs. I drew a 50-mile radius around the mark, and spent the next three months searching, with my husband, Mark, for a house. We sought top-rated schools for our two boys, proximity to a train en route to Manhattan, and an ample yard. As chance would have it, we ended our hunt at the most devastatingly beautiful spot, a winding country road abutting a spruce forest in the tony suburban hamlet of Chappaqua, in Westchester County, New York.

Full article:

Lyme Disease: The Great Imitator…
Lyme disease can masquerade as a host of psychiatric ills, confounding doctors and driving patients to question their very sanity.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20080420-000004.xml