06-07-2017, 08:43 AM
I'm not sure I'd chuck the entire field, especially considering that nearly every mental illness defined today has a measure of brain inflammation associated with it, in addition to measurable, repeatable changes in structure. So there is something there and that something appears to be connected to an inflammatory process of some kind in the brain. What triggers it is the question remaining unanswered. Is it autoimmune? Stress-induced? Dietary? Genetic? Epigenetic? Much left to unravel.