The Inflamed Mind

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Intro Dedication Preface Chapter 1: Daring to think differently Root canal blues Neuro-immunology and immuno-psychiatry What does an inflamed mind look like? The revolution will not be televised Chapter 2: The workings of the immune system Inflammation and infection Fig 1. Immune cells Fig 2. Inflammation Location, location, location Communication: the medium is the message Fig 3. The immune system Rapid rebuttal and learning Auto-immunity: the flip side Chapter 3: Hiding in plain sight It's depressing being ill The cogito, God, and the machine Fig 4. A lady trying to explain the pineal theory of the human mind and bodyA long shadow Mrs P is not alone A bona fide blockbuster The Cartesian blind spot Chapter 4: Melancholia after Descartes From black bile to MDD A cross to bear Super-shrink Fig 5. Freud's first draft of the ego Dancing in the sanatorium Fig 6. First prophet of pharmaceuticals The golden age Fig 7. Scenes of joy at the dawn of anti-depressants Fig 8. The seer and the synapse Farcical serotonin Bereft of biomarkers Chapter 5: How? Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence A stubborn fact Causes must come firstThe Berlin Wall in the brain Fig 9. What I was taught at medical school -- and what we now know Fig 10. Nervous reflex control of inflammation Inflamed brains Chapter 6: Why? What could make you inflamed (and depressed)? Flaming stressed Causal chains and cycles Ultimately, the answer must always be Darwin Fig 11. Emotional faces and emotional brains A savannah survival story Chapter 7: So what? Medical apartheid Fig 12. The vicious cycle of stress, inflammation and depression -- and ways to break it -- an artist's impression Could it be different already? Market failureBeyond blockbusters: better but not bigger than Prozac Alzheimer's disease and the yin and yang of microglia Schizophrenia and auto-intoxication Acknowledgements Disclaimers About the Author References Index Copyright