#ItsNeverLupus (until it is)

“New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as #schizophrenia may actually have #autoimmune disease”

“Markx and his colleagues discovered that although April’s illness was clinically indistinguishable from schizophrenia, she also had #lupus, an underlying and treatable autoimmune condition that was attacking her brain.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/01/schizophrenia-autoimmune-lupus-psychiatry/

A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.

New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.

Washington Post