An inflamed brain can trigger psychosis. The search is on for patients who might be cured

Recommendable! A nice example how sometimes ignorance gets in the way of progress!

It is actually amazing how slow this progress is given that it was speculated and occasionally verified for several decades that there are physiological causes or pathogens etc. for mental disorders. Maybe the teaching and practice of medicine has a mental disorder too! The dogma of bodily diseases versus mental disorders needs to be reviewed! 😊

"... an autoimmune brain disease with a jawbreaker of a name: anti-leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (anti-LGI1) encephalitis. The team administered high doses of intravenous cortisone, a first-line treatment for brain inflammation. ...
Over the past 15 years, researchers have identified 18 different diseases, all triggered by an immune attack on the brain, that can lead to diverse neurological symptoms, and in some cases, psychosis. Like other autoimmune diseases, which include rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and lupus, these autoimmune brain inflammations, or encephalitides ...
When the first form of autoimmune encephalitis was discovered in 2007, psychiatrists largely ignored the revelation—or didn’t think it was relevant to their patients ...
The true rate of autoimmune encephalitis isn’t known, but most researchers suspect only a small fraction of psychosis cases [???] trace to autoantibodies. ...
Now, researchers are pursuing hints that errant antibodies could play a role in other disorders once thought to lie squarely in the realm of psychiatry, including obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. ..."

An inflamed brain can trigger psychosis. The search is on for patients who might be cured | Science | AAAS Autoimmune conditions underlie some cases of psychosis. Scientists are expanding their search for patients, who often benefit from treatment