Inflammatory Psychosis

Inflammatory Psychosis

Inflammation is an important and often underestimated cause of schizophrenia-like symptoms.

Though clearly important as a possible cause, the role of inflammation in generating symptoms is complicated and incompletely understood.

This lecture was presented on 5 February 2019 to the SZ consult learning community and is entitled ‘Inflammatory Psychosis".

This lecture is part of Northeast Ohio University's education(+)consultation service, SZ consult.
A PowerPoint file for this lecture is available at http://szconsult.org/

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Partial list of hypotheses for schizophrenia
01:32 - Some narrative examples
06:41 - Autoimmune disease can prevent with psychosis
07:41 - Rheumatoid
08:18 - Inflammatory signals
09:00 - CSF Autoantibodies
09:45 - Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews
09:48 - Effect of anti-inflammatory medications on schizophrenia
10:14 - Studies of aspirin
11:24 - Studies on celecoxib
12:17 - Lower prevalence of psychosis in NSAID users
13:42 - Summary

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