Antinuclear Antibodies in Psychiatric Illness: Their Relationship to Diagnosis and Drug Treatment

Abstract

Antinuclear antibodies occurred more often and in higher titres in psychiatric patients than in controls. Anti-DNA antibodies were not found. We suggest that antinuclear antibodies may be drug-induced and that lithium carbonate may have a particular tendency to produce this reaction. © 1975, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.