Clinicians and Healthcare Providers
When Sarah developed severe anxiety and OCD at age 12, doctors said it was "just anxiety."
When Maria's depression didn't get better after starting antidepressants, she was told to "try harder."
They’re not alone – up to 60% of people with mental health symptoms don’t find relief through traditional treatments.
But why? For many, the root cause is physical. Brain inflammation triggered by infections or autoimmune responses can cause depression, anxiety, and behavioral changes. Yet, many healthcare providers never make this connection.
Could brain inflammation be driving your patients' mental health symptoms?
Treatment-resistant mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and OCD, among others, can impact patient health and quality life for decades. Could screening your patients’ for inflammation help you improve their mental health outcomes?
Chronic inflammation could contribute to up to 30% of depression, anxiety, and related mental health diagnoses.
We need your help to establish diagnostic protocols and standards of care for inflammation-associated mental health conditions. Clinicians have an important role in this urgently-needed clinical research. Interested in learning more about how neuroinflammation could be impacting your patients’ mental health?
The Neuroimmune System &
Mental Health
People with neuroimmune and autoimmune conditions often exhibit symptoms attributed to psychiatric disorders like depression or anxiety. For some people, the mental health symptoms may be documented by a clinician before the neuroimmune or autoimmune condition has been diagnosed.
Recognizing mental health or behavioral symptoms as inflammatory-driven could be the key to better health outcomes for your patients. While there are ways to screen for inflammatory markers in the body, identifying inflammation in the brain can be challenging.
Do you have patients with treatment-resistant mental health symptoms that may be caused by underlying neuroimmune or autoimmune conditions?
The Role of Patient-Reported Outcomes
You know your patients. Each person has a unique experience, even when they share diagnoses. Understanding an individual’s unique experiences with an illness, medication, or procedure, inform how you care for them.
Researchers and clinicians alike benefit from access to patient-reported data. Patient-reported outcomes offer insights that biomedical or observational data cannot. Symptoms like fatigue and pain are difficult to measure observationally. It’s also difficult to determine how a symptom, treatment, or intervention impacts the patient’s life.
We partner with clinicians like you to help connect patients with resources and make participation in clinical research more feasible.
Research Collaboration
Healthcare providers like you can help your patients and improve health outcomes for all who are impacted by neuroinflammation by sharing information and connecting patients with clinical research opportunities.
This collaboration facilitates better data collection, deeper clinical insights, and ultimately effective treatment options for neuroinflammatory conditions.
