How likely is neurax worm in plague inc to be real in real life? It first crosses the blood brain barrier and enters the brain, and then evolves in a few directions:
- Hijacking neurotransmitter control and release, reduces serotonin levels causing despair and suicidal thoughts.
- Adrenergic Constriction & Anxiolytic Infusion, which basically lowers one's anxiety response and blunts ur fight or flight response, making one docile and compliant
- Obsessional Control (OCD, Obsession, Devotion, Transcendence (treating it as god))
- Rewiring the risk/ reward system by hijacking reward pathway -> dopamine production and control.
The neurax Worm's core principle is how the worm achieves total mind control over its host via the above way. I know its science fiction and basically biologically impossible for an organism to have specialise in all the pathways. But how possible or realistic is for one organism to achieve specialisation in just 1 pathway? Which is already very significant, cuz it can be considered partial mind control. Like, are there any viruses or bacteria or parasites that affects your decision making/ risk assessment, or maybe even cause OCD?
u/Accomplished-Age7376 — 9 days ago