Robert C Bransfield

1 week ago | contagionlive.com | Sophia Abene |Robert C Bransfield

For over 50 years, psychiatrist Robert C Bransfield, MD, has focused on treating patients with some of the most difficult psychiatric conditions, those resistant to conventional therapies. Over time, his clinical work led him to a surprising pattern: many of these patients had a history of infectious disease, particularly Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses. What he found challenges assumptions in both psychiatry and infectious disease.

1 month ago | contagionlive.com | Sophia Abene |Robert C Bransfield

A growing body of evidence is highlighting the role of microbial infections in the development and progression of various mental illnesses, according to a comprehensive review published in Healthcare by Bransfield and colleagues.

1 month ago | contagionlive.com | Sophia Abene |Robert C Bransfield

For half a century, psychiatrist Robert C Bransfield, MD, has practiced psychiatry in New Jersey, dedicating his career to one of the field’s most challenging areas: treatment-resistant psychiatric illness. Over time, his curiosity and clinical observation led him to a striking and often underrecognized contributor to mental illness, infectious disease.