{"id":90509,"date":"2019-05-09T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/possible-biomarker-discovered-for-schizophrenia"},"modified":"2019-05-09T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:02:34","slug":"possible-biomarker-discovered-for-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/possible-biomarker-discovered-for-schizophrenia","title":{"rendered":"Possible Biomarker Discovered for Schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/possible-biomarker-discovered-for-schizophrenia3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Schizophrenia+is+Associated+With+an+Aberrant+Immune+Response+to+Epstein%E2%80%93Barr+Virus\">study<\/a> out of John\u2019s Hopkins University published by Dr. Robert Yolken, MD, and colleagues late last year have found a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29560884\">biomarker<\/a> for schizophrenia. Biomarkers are extremely important to help diagnose disease, yet very few exist for psychiatric disorders. You cannot take a blood test to diagnose depression, for example. The current study found that schizophrenics carry a high level of a certain antibody produced in response to Epstein\u2013Barr virus (EBV), a type of herpes virus that can lead to infectious mononucleosis (aka \u201cmono\u201d or \u201cthe kissing disease\u201d). The schizophrenic patients in this study had a greater immune response to EBV-viral capsid antibody (VCA) compared to controls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/possible-biomarker-discovered-for-schizophrenia2.jpg\" width=\"835\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labroots.com\/trending\/neuroscience\/13912\/biomarker-discovered-schizophrenia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study out of John\u2019s Hopkins University published by Dr. Robert Yolken, MD, and colleagues late last year have found a possible biomarker for schizophrenia. Biomarkers are extremely important to help diagnose disease, yet very few exist for psychiatric disorders. You cannot take a blood test to diagnose depression, for example. The current study found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90509","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\/90509","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}