1 in 11 cases of psychosis may be a treatable immune disorder
This does not surprise me at all. A study (though needs serious study not this pathetic effort!) reported in the Lancet Psychiatry says that up to 1 in 11 patients sectioned with psychotic conditions, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, may actually have a treatable immune disorder. The finding is controversial but I am very aware of people with autoimmune diseases that are blood, connective tissue disease etc that have brain involvement. The experts take Decades to diagnose. I know of a lady whose undiagnosed Lupus destroyed her brain 30 years Before her Lupus was discovered. By which time her Lupus was terrible because the drugs were totally wrong. I have sympathetic nerve dysfunction from it and my central nervous system is also affected.
In the cases discovered, antibodies that should protect the body were instead attacking the surface of the brain's cells and disrupting their function. This transforms the treatment and the lady in the report even had these antibodies filtered out of her blood. That is amazing!
Read the amazing discovery here ☺
In the cases discovered, antibodies that should protect the body were instead attacking the surface of the brain's cells and disrupting their function. This transforms the treatment and the lady in the report even had these antibodies filtered out of her blood. That is amazing!
Read the amazing discovery here ☺