Brain-altering fungi could lead the next frontier in mental health care – here's how

By Edel Hyland, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry & Fungal Biology, Queen's University Belfast

If you were one of the millions of people who watched HBO’s TV series The Last of Us, you probably have a heightened awareness of the threat that fungi can have to our health.

The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world where parasitic fungi take control of the human brain, turning people into killer zombies. The scariest part of this premise is that it’s not entirely implausible. Parasitic or “zombie” fungi that alter

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