Paul Saladino· MD
mental illness (depression, anxiety, etc.) is predominantly autoimmune in nature = neuroinflammation
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mental illness (depression, anxiety, etc.) is predominantly autoimmune in nature = neuroinflammation
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I think you could pretty accurately characterize psychiatric disease as an autoimmune condition in the brain and I think that autoimmunity and inflammation are essentially synonymous
there's so much brain inflammation and brain autoimmunity with depression anxiety bipolar schizophrenia
there's so much brain inflammation and brain autoimmunity with depression anxiety bipolar schizophrenia
which means you could really characterize these as an autoimmune disease as a disease of the immune system in the brain turning against itself
so the immune system in the brain turning against itself so the question for this podcast becomes why is the immune system doing that