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I recently had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Robert Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA, a pioneering psychiatrist whose decades of clinical experience have led him to groundbreaking insights on the connection between infectious disease and treatment-resistant mental illness. Dr. Bransfield is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past president of both ILADS and the New Jersey Psychiatric Association, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers RWJ Medical School and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.For over a century, psychiatry has wrestled with the mystery of what causes mental illness. Dr. Bransfield's work builds on this legacy and offers hope for a paradigm shift: that by understanding the role of infection and immunity, we may transform how we treat chronic, persistent mental disorders and neurodegenerative disease.In this conversation, we explored the multifactorial nature of chronic disease and mental illness, including:✅ How over 60 different infectious diseases have been linked to psychiatric conditions through immune-mediated pathways.✅ The evolving understanding of tick-borne infections like Borrelia and Bartonella in the onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including depression.✅ The historical arc of psychiatry’s view on infection as a contributor to mental illness—from syphilis and the slow virus theory to modern psychoimmunology.✅ Why addressing susceptibility genes and intervening early in disease progression can break the vicious cycle of chronic psychiatric disorders.You can learn more about Dr. Bransfield and his work at www.MentalHealthandIllness.com or connect with him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.bransfield.1/.

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