{"id":121993,"date":"2021-04-26T08:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-immune-link-between-a-leaky-blood-brain-barrier-and-schizophrenia"},"modified":"2021-04-26T08:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:22:30","slug":"the-immune-link-between-a-leaky-blood-brain-barrier-and-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-immune-link-between-a-leaky-blood-brain-barrier-and-schizophrenia","title":{"rendered":"The Immune Link Between a Leaky Blood-Brain Barrier and Schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-immune-link-between-a-leaky-blood-brain-barrier-and-schizophrenia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The work adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that schizophrenia and certain other neuropsychiatric conditions may be in part neuroinflammatory disorders.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>People with schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders may have a more permissive blood-brain barrier which allows the immune system to become more actively involved in the central nervous system. The resulting inflammation may contribute to the clinical manifestation of psychosis-like symptoms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like a stern bodyguard for the central nervous sytem, the blood-brain barrier keeps out anything that could lead to disease and dangerous inflammation\u2013at least when all is functioning normally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That may not be the case in people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders, suggest new findings from a team led by researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, and Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that schizophrenia and certain other neuropsychiatric conditions may be in part neuroinflammatory disorders. Summary: People with schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders may have a more permissive blood-brain barrier which allows the immune system to become more actively involved in the central nervous system. The resulting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}