Neuroinflammation, particularly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is well-established in a
subset of people with schizophrenia, with significant increases in inflammatory markers …

OBJECTIVE: This article reviews recent developments in cytokine biology that are relevant
to clinical psychiatry. METHOD: The authors reviewed English-language literature of the last …

BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is associated with immune system dysfunction, including
abnormal blood immune cell parameters. We performed a meta-analysis of these …

This review summarizes the epidemiologic evidence linking autoimmune diseases and
psychosis. The associations between autoimmune diseases and psychosis have been …

1. Parallel to the current rapid development of new immunological methods, immune
mechanisms are gaining more importance for our understanding of psychiatric disorders …

Cytokines have emerged in the past two decades as some of the most extensively studied
peptide molecules contributing to the pathophysiology of many diseases. As a result of these …

In recent years evidence has accumulated to suggest that neuroinflammation might be an
early pathology of schizophrenia that later leads to neurodegeneration, yet the exact role in …

Using an enzyme immunoassay (ELISA), we measured serum interleukin-6 (IL-6)
concentration in 128 schizophrenic patients (24 of whom were never medicated) and in 110 …

This overview tries to bridge the gap between psychoneuroimmunological findings and
recent results from pharmacological, neurochemical and genetic studies in schizophrenia …

Immune alterations in schizophrenia have been described for decades. Modern
immunological methods and new insights into the highly developed and functionally …