Healthy body, healthy mind: a new approach for mental disorders - Science Weekly podcast

What role might the immune system play in mental illness? And how might this challenge long-held beliefs about the divide between body and brain?

Subscribe & Review on iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud & Acast, and join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter

Earlier this month, a clinical trial began to test a radical new approach for treating schizophrenia. The trial comes from a team of scientists based in London who have discovered intriguing evidence that schizophrenia could be a disease of the immune system. But how could disruptions in the immune system lead to the kind of symptoms seen in schizophrenia? And might the immune system play a role in other mental disorders?