Schizophrenia and cytokines

In the last few decades, the researcher attention is more concentrated onto immunological abnormalities observed in patients with schizophrenia. In the first section, we make a brief review of some theoretical constructs proposed in order to understand better the connection between schizophrenia and immunological alterations. Afterwards, in the second section we discuss the influence of the cytokines on particular neurotransmitter systems and finally we present some of the observations obtained from the studies in a real clinical situation, as well further directions for the investigatiors in this field.