Microbes and Mental Illness
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 658
Special Issue Editors
2. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
Interests: psychopharmacology; mental health; the link between microbes and mental illness; lyme and other tick-borne disease; the link between microbes and violence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cause of mental illness has been an area of great debate. Syphilis drew attention to the role of infections causing mental illness until it was better controlled by penicillin. It is now generally recognized that most mental illnesses are caused by the interaction of pre-existing genetic or other vulnerabilities with environmental trigger(s). Many triggers may exist, and infections and the immune reactions associated with them are significant contributors. Chronic and stealth infections, including venereal diseases, viruses, and vector-borne diseases, are particularly recognized as causing mental illnesses. Some of these infections are complex interactive infections; others are chronic relapsing infections or prior infections causing residual dysfunction. Many of these infections are associated with multisystem symptoms and polymorbidity. Although thousands of articles have already demonstrated a causal association between microbes and mental illnesses, including hundreds with tick-borne diseases, more investigation in this area is needed.
This Special Issue of Pathogens is open to all researchers and clinicians who study the causal associations between microbes and mental illnesses. Articles addressing pathophysiology, psychoimmunology, clinical observations, assessment and treatment formatted as reviews, original research and case reports are welcome.
Dr. Robert Bransfield
Dr. Rosalie Greenberg
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbes and mental illnesses
- tick-borne diseases
- Syphilis
- pathophysiology
- psychoimmunology
- clinical observations
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