An article in “Neurology”, on May, 22, 2019, reported patients with bipolar disorder are seven times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease at ratios of 140:1 vs. 1000:1. The article also reported a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease in patients with a psychiatric admission for manic, mixed, or depressive psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and other mental illnesses have also been reported by others to be improved or cured using low dose antibiotics and/or anti-parasitics.
A reasonable explanation is that mental illness is a medical illness; and the same pathogen or combination of pathogens likely cause these and other mental illnesses and neurodegenerative diseases, as the chronic infection spreads and persists, along an infectious cascade over years and decades, from acute infection—to chronic infection—to chronic disease.
https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2019/05/22/WNL.0000000000007649
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