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Viruses, Immunity, and Mental Disorders (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Viruses, Immunity, and Mental Disorders (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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In spite of progress in biomedical research, we know little about
the causes, prevention, and treatment of the numerous mental and
neurological disorders that afflict up to 15% of all individuals.
In the last decade, great advances have been made in the
physiopathology of mental and neurological disorders, leading to at
least a partial control of Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, certain
psychoses, and anxiety syndromes. Despite the fact that an
underlying specific neurotransmitter deficiency has been
demonstrated in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, the immune
dysfunction and viral hypotheses continue to be attractive for
investigators dealing with these degenerative diseases of the aging
brain, which afflict 10% of senior citizens. A retrospective
epidemiologic study suggests that the encephalitis lethargica and
parkinsonism were almost certainly caused by the 1918 influenza
virus pandemics. It must be stressed that the etiopathogenesis of
many mental disorders is not known, and this ignorance has led to
several untenable neurophysiological and biochemical hypotheses.
Epidemiologic investigations show a high prevalence of functional
psychoses and organic mental disorders. Although many of them are
conceptualized as biopsychosocial disorders, recent data indicate
that the biological component appears more and more as a major
etiologic factor. Among the various biological hypotheses, the
viral and im munologic concept has become a significant one. In
view of recent discoveries in virology and immunity, it becomes
clear that viral and immunologic hypotheses should be inves tigated
more systematically concerning the mechanisms of numerous mental
and neu rological disorders."
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