Schizophrenia linked to inflammation?

[thereishope]

When you read this article, remember I am NOT saying to give your kids aspirin. Some PANDAS kids do react well to Ibuprofen, but I do not endorse giving aspirin to kids. I am sharing this to show the correlation betwenn schizophrenia and inflammation as PANDAS correlates to inflammation of the basal ganglia.

 

 

 

http://article.psychiatrist.com/dao_1-logi...=40173234257663

[melanie]

What was the dosage? How does that relate to the asprin daily for heart patients?

[EAMom]

Here's an article about Ibuprofen and dementia risk...same idea I think.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...80505162913.htm

[dut]

Hi - I can't find it now... (will try and find and post) but...

 

Some recent studies postulated that the amyloid plaques that cause the trouble in AD, may actually start out as protective rather than be an abberant immune response. They believe they may develop as a response to increased infection within the brain.

 

Could this increased infection rate within the CNS be as a result of a faulty BBB (cause by?) that benefits from anti inflammatories or does the BBB have less integrity purely as a result of increased sytemic inflammation.. ?