The Neuroimmunological Basis of Behavior and Mental Disorders

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Siegel, Allan. (Editor), Zalcman, Steven S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Neurosciences.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84851-8

Over the past three decades, the neuroscience community has seen the rapid growth of neuroimmunology, a new area of research investigating how immune activation and immune-derived products interact with the brain and modulate behavior. A convergence of multidisciplinary investigators helped launch t...

Table of Contents:

• Section I Introduction: Overview
• Immunity and Behavior: Sickness Behavior
• Psychiatric Disorders and Immunity
• Immunological Challenge and Behavior
• Immune to Brain Signaling
• Section II Basic Experiments: Immunity and Behavior
• Immunity and Neurochemistry
• Behavioral Changes: Effects of Inflammation on Behavior: Depression
• Feeding
• Social Behavior
• Exploratory Behavior
• Cognition
• Autoimmunity and Behavior
• Inflammatory Cytokines and Behavior
• Cytokines, Genetics, Immunity and Behavior
• Prenatal Effects
• Relationship to Aggression
• Behavior Activating Effects of Cytokines
• Molecular Signaling Pathway and Behavior
• Section III Clinical Correlations: Depression
• Schizophrenia
• Cytokine Therapy
• Stress and Immunity
• Viruses and Immunity
• Pain
• Section IV Summary and Future Directions.