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Janice R. Stevens, MD; John M. Langloss, DVM, PhD; Paul Albrecht, MD; Robert Yolken, MD; Yen-Nung Wang, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1984;41(8):795-801.

Abstract
• The peroxidase-antiperoxidase method was employed to search for evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) or herpes simplex virus (HSV) antigen in the brains of 25 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, 25 nonschizophrenic neuropsychiatric patients, and 16 nonpsychiatric control subjects. Brain specimens from patients with acute CMV and herpes encephalitis served as positive controls. Although early results with low-titer CMV antisera suggested immunoreactivity in specific brain regions of a small number of schizophrenic and control cases, the present studies with high-titer anti-CMV IgG did not give a positive immunoperoxidase reaction in sections from the basal forebrain, hypothalamus, or midbrain. Scattered neurons in the lateral vestibular nucleus and hippocampus showed questionable staining with CMV IgG in one schizophrenic patient and none in control subjects. No schizophrenic or control cases demonstrated an immune reaction to HSV antisera.

Author Affiliations
From the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC (Drs Stevens and Wang); The Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland (Dr Stevens); the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC (Dr Langloss); the National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC (Dr Albrecht); and The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, Baltimore (Dr Yolken).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 30, 1984.

Reprint requests to NIMH, Division of Special Mental Health Research, IR, St Elizabeths WAW Building, Washington, DC 20032 (Dr Stevens).

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