T20. SEARCHING FOR NOVEL AUTOANTIBODIES WITH CLINICAL RELEVANCE IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

摘要

BackgroundImmunological reactions may have a role in subgroups of patients suffering from psychiatric disorders. Possible markers for such subgroups may be autoantibodies of currently unknown nature. If identified, they could indicate which patients that would benefit from immunomodulatory treatment in addition to standard interventions. Modern proteomic methods allow analyses of antibody binding to thousands of different human proteins, facilitating the identification of currently undiscovered autoantibodies.