Scientists from the Royal College of London in the course of the study found that people whose immunity "got out of control" and began to attack their own cells of the body, develops more and psychosis - a disorder of perception and behavior.

Specialists conducted a meta-analysis, statistically summarizing the data of 30 studies with a cumulative sample of about 25 million people, whose authors tried to find a link between psychoses and autoimmune diseases. The work showed that in such patients the risk of developing psychotic disorders - including schizophrenia - increases by as much as 40 percent.

At the second stage of the study, scientists examined autoimmune diseases separately. It found that the risk of psychosis actually increased in patients with psoriasis, celiac disease, Graves' disease, dermatological pemphigoid.

On the other hand, with Bechterew's disease and the same rheumatoid arthritis, the risk of psychosis, on the contrary, decreases, writes Naked Science.

However, some experts believe that the relationship between those and other diseases is not so simple and can not be explained by the action of chronic inflammation, which is characteristic of all autoimmune disorders. Perhaps it's about the characteristics of heredity, which can affect a person's predisposition to both autoimmune and psychotic disorders.

Source: News Yu.

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