Psychopathology of psychiatric patients presenting autoantibodies against neuroglial antigens.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Autoantibody-mediated psychiatric disorder is often difficult to diagnose as the clinical features of psychiatric disorder associated with neural autoantibodies are often similar. Thus, it is of major relevance to investigate whether psychopathology can differentiate between both disease entities as a biomarker and help us in searching for specific autoantibodies associated with psychiatric symptoms.

Methods

We enrolled 154 patients of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Medical Center Göttingen with psychopathology data and retrospectively evaluated their patient records using the classification systems AMDP (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Methodik und Dokumentation in der Psychiatrie) and HiTOP (Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology).

SUBMITTER: Grenzer IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685427 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature