Meta-Analysis of Lymphocytes in Schizophrenia: Clinical Status and Antipsychotic Effects

Lymphocyte subsets in schizophrenic disorders: relationship with clinical, neuromorphological and treatment variables

Increased levels of CD8+ and CD4 + 45RA + lymphocytes in schizophrenic patients

Abnormal distributions of T-lymphocyte subsets in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with acute schizophrenia.

Publisher Summary A large number of variables capable of modifying either the stress response and/or the immune system have been identified. They can be divided into several categories including psychological, environmental, and behavioral variables. Behavioral interventions have the potential to act on either physiological or mental processes. This chapter focuses on the variables that are capable of modulating the effects of stressors on the human immune system. The categories of variables are numerous and complex. They include (1) biological and pharmacological factors, (2) structural and energetic interventions, (3) ethnomedical practices, (4) mind-body control, which would include guided imagery and hypnotherapy, and (5) lifestyle factors. The extent to which behavioral interventions might have efficacy based on the inherent properties of the intervention is sometimes difficult to determine. They exert a beneficial influence through those processes activated by the placebo phenomenon. Mind-body variables are correlated with health outcome in a number of different contexts.

Stress and Immunity in Humans: Modifying Variables

In discussions about the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, immunopathological processes have been noted among the possible initial or triggering steps of this disease.

A. A. Zozulya

Papers

Some Aspects of Immunologic Studies in Schizophrenia