You're still just trying to confirm your bias.
(Jun 20, 2021 08:03 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Immunologic processes may play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders,...As with all the previous hedge words, "may" and "suspect" are always clear signs they don't have the evidence for their claims.
We now suspect that immunologic processes may also play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders,...
Quote:Depression is not an inflammatory disorderSeems to directly refute your central claim.
Probably the most important lessons that we have learned about inflammation and depression are that depression is not an inflammatory disorder and not every patient with depression has increased inflammation.
Quote:The difficulty in addressing this question is that the answer depends on the patient population being considered. ...Both highlighting the inherent weakness of results gleaned from small, unrepresentative samples. This whole article you posted seems to have avoided giving any sample sizes at all.
These data suggest that inflammation is transdiagnostic in nature, occurring in subpopulations of patients within a number of psychiatric disorders.