Open AccessIs there an autoimmune basis for schizophrenia?
Author(s) -
Abhinav Tewari,
Daniel Saldanha,
Piyush Ostwal,
Bhushan Chaudhari
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
medical journal of dr. d y patil university/medical journal of dr. d.y. patil university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7119
pISSN - 0975-2870
DOI - 10.4103/0975-2870.197914
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , etiology , causation , myasthenia gravis , medicine , autoantibody , immunology , psychiatry , psychology , neuroscience , philosophy , epistemology , antibody
Etiology of schizophrenia still remains a mystery. Schizophrenia with coexistence of myasthenia gravis in the same patient raises the suspicion of autoimmune mechanisms involved in causation of schizophrenia