At least since Susannah Cahalan wrote the 2012 book Brain on Fire, there has been resurging speculation that psychosis might actually be a disorder of the immune system. Cahalan eventually came to ...

Immune dysregulation is often defined as an immune response that is directed against one of the body’s own tissues, cells or molecules (e.g. autoimmunity) or against an innocuous foreign molecule that ...

Autoimmune neurological diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks nerve cells. Damage to neuronal cells can lead to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Autoimmune diseases ...

Findings from a new study led by scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine and their colleagues elsewhere show that a single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or ...