There will be a biologic for a major mental illness in the next few years. Brain inflammation is fairly obviously a part of mental illness, even though this article chooses sensationalism over real consideration of the problem......
Dr. Joseph Masdeu is the Director of the Houston Methodist Nantz National Alzheimer's Center. He came here from the National Institutes of Health, and he has been studying an auto-immune condition that can mimic mental problems, like Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. He believes many patients are wrongly diagnosed with these conditions and that they may have an auto-immune disease that blocks important receptors in the brain. "When we block that receptor, people have hallucinations. They can have thoughts of people reading their minds and delusions and it can be bipoloar - likely caused by an autoimmune attack," says Dr. Masdeu. This causes the body to think of the brain as an enemy and attack it.