Could Your Anxiety Be Lyme in the Brain?

Dr. Eboni Cornish, MD, of Amen Clinics and ILADS, returns for a third conversation, live in Nashville. She and Dr. Chris Motley talk about Lyme and other tick-borne infections in the brain: anxiety and depression, kids labeled ADHD, puberty flares, mold and memory, and why she calms the brain before treating anything. Plus her best question: when did your symptoms start, and where were you? Sources in the show notes. Educational only, not medical advice.

00:00 Depression, anxiety, and a Lyme test

00:39 Welcome: Dr. Eboni Cornish, live in Nashville 

02:20 From bored family doctor to Lyme practice 

04:13 How Lyme gets into the brain 

06:12 What a Lyme brain looks like on a SPECT scan 

08:02 The limbic loop: calm the brain 

10:21 Is neurology catching up? 

12:30 Floaters, light sensitivity, and trouble reading 

14:05 Tinnitus and sound sensitivity 

15:08 Can kids have Lyme? Pregnancy and newborns 

17:48 Why puberty can trigger a flare