Many psychiatric illnesses are inflammatory and autoimmune in nature, involving activation of the immune system in the central nervous system.

“I really think a lot of psychiatric disease is autoimmune in nature it's our immune system reacting against your body and your brain and your brain is just kind of on fire and in flame”

“many psychiatric diseases are autoimmune in nature”

“psychiatric illness is probably the majority of the time inflammatory and autoimmune in nature and what I mean by that is activation of the immune system in the central nervous system is probably one of the more proximate events in psychiatric illness”

“if you have psychiatric disease depression anxiety bipolar or psychotic disorders these are also autoimmune and neuroinflammatory in my opinion cardiovascular disease has an immune component and I think could be considered autoimmune”