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This book assembles and presents the available data on the immune/inflammatory dysfunction in psychiatric disorders, indicating the potential of immune mechanisms as either biomarkers or therapeutic targets, as well as discussing the challenges ahead of incorporating this knowledge into clinical practice.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: Overview of the immune system
- Chapter 2: Immune-neuropharmacology
- Chapter 3: Immune mechanisms affecting CNS functioning
- Chapter 4: Immune mechanisms and CNS development
- Chapter 5: The immune system as a sensor capable to affect other homeostatic systems
- Chapter 6: Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Chapter 7: Investigating immune changes in the psychiatric patient
- Chapter 8: Immune dysfunction: a common feature of major psychiatric disorders?
- Chapter 9: Immunology of substance use disorder
- Chapter 10: Immune system dysregulation and schizophrenia
- Chapter 11: Depression as a neuroinflammatory condition
- Chapter 12: Immunology of bipolar disorder
- Chapter 13: immunology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Chapter 14: Immunology of eating disorders
- Chapter 15: Immunology of late-life psychiatric disorders and dementias
- Chapter 16: Immune-based biomarkers and therapies in psychiatry: future prospects
About the author
Antonio L. Teixeira, MD is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, Texas.
Moises E. Bauer, PhD, senior researcher in Neuroimmunology, Head of the Laboratory of Stress Immunology (School of Sciences, PUCRS, Brazil). Professor of Immunology at the Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Summary
This book assembles and presents the available data on the immune/inflammatory dysfunction in psychiatric disorders, indicating the potential of immune mechanisms as either biomarkers or therapeutic targets, as well as discussing the challenges ahead of incorporating this knowledge into clinical practice.
