Question: Is there a type of brain disease that is common with teenagers?

Daryl Jones answered on 19 Jun 2014:

Hmm well I could spend hours answering this question, as it opens so many doors! (Very good question). But I’ll try to be brief!

I want to tell you about mad cow disease, as this interests me a lot! Mad cow disease was a problem in the early 1990s. People ate infected beef and SOME of those people came down with the human form of mad cow disease. Interestingly, most of them were teenagers or young adults!! It was a mystery, and many people thought it was because teenagers are more likely to eat fast foods. Eventually we came to realise that it was because younger adults and teenagers have a good strong immune system, better than older people, and that mad cow disease actually USES the immune system to infect people! So the better the immune system, the more likely it was to get infected!

Also, teenagers are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia and other similar psychiatric brain diseases! Interesting!!