Table 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.