Format:
1 online resource (323 pages)
ISBN:
9780190884475
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Immunopsychiatry -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface-From Psychoneuroimmunology to Immunopsychiatry: A Brief History -- Contributors -- Plate1 -- Plate2 -- 1. Overview of the Immune System -- 2. Immunoneuropharmacology -- 3. Immune Mechanisms Affecting the Functioning of the Central Nervous System (CNS) -- 4. Immune Mechanisms and Central Nervous System (CNS) Development -- 5. The Immune System as a Sensor Able to Affect Other Homeostatic Systems -- 6. Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders -- 7. Investigating Immune Changes in the Psychiatric Patients -- 8. Immune Dysfunction: A Common Feature of Major Psychiatric Disorders? -- 9. Immunology of Substance Use Disorders -- 10. Immune System Dysregulation and Schizophrenia -- 11. Depression as a Neuroinflammatory Condition -- 12. Immunology of Bipolar Disorder -- 13. Immunology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -- 14. Immunology of Eating Disorders -- 15. Immunology of Late-Life Psychiatric Disorders and Dementias -- 16. Immune-Based Biomarkers and Therapies in Psychiatry: Future Prospects -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9780190884468
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780190884468
Language:
English
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