Immuno-Psychiatry by Berk, Michael; Leboyer, Marion; Sommer, Iris E.;

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Edition number 1st ed. 2021
Publisher Springer International Publishing
Date of Publication 16 August 2022
Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

ISBN 9783030712310
Binding Paperback
See also 9783030712280
No. of pages444 pages
Size 235x155 mm
Weight 694 g
Language English
Illustrations XI, 444 p. 22 illus., 18 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white

Long description:

This book presents a thorough and critical review of current knowledge on the role of immunology in major psychiatric disorders and its potential applications. The opening chapters offer general information on the immune influence of the brain to provide readers with a better understanding of the end of immune privilege. The book then examines possible underlying mechanisms leading to psychiatric disorders, from early infections to pro-inflammatory markers, stress, and immune genetic background, linking etiology and psychiatry. The third section describes each disorder (ie autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression...) with an overview of underlying immune dysfunctions. Lastly, the authors discuss the innovative immune-therapies that may result from the discovery of immune system biomarkers and their associated mechanisms. A better understanding of the role of the immune system in psychiatric disorders makes it possible to identify stratification biomarkers, to explain underlying mechanisms, and to develop innovative, efficient, targeted treatment strategies and management. As such, the book is of value to clinicians, mental health professionals, mental health researchers, immunologists, industry practitioners, and various stakeholders in the mental health field.

Foreword.- 1. Auto-immune disorders and infections as risk factors for mental disorders.- 2. The life-long consequences of prenatal and childhood stress on the innate and adaptive immune system.- 3. Immunity as a common risk pathway for psychiatric and medical comorbidity?.- 4. Brain imaging Measures of Immune Dysregulation in Psychiatry.- 5. Cytokines as biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: methodological issues.- 6. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and the depressive phenotype function.- 7. Role of the T Cell Network in Psychiatric Disorders.- 8. Microglia and psychiatric disorders.- 9. Human Endogenous Retrovirus as missing link in the global etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.- 10. The Human Leukocyte Antigen system in Psychiatry: Where do we stand?.- 11. Testable Hypotheses Relating Complement Pathways to Elevated Risk for Schizophrenia.- 12. Gut microbiome in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.- 13. Is Autism Spectrum Disorder related to immune dysfunction?.- 14. Inflammation and immunity in depression.- 15. The aberrant Immune system and Bipolar disorder.- 16. Immune dysfunction and depression: is Immunometabolism the missing link?.- 17. Immune dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder: from risk factors to multisystem involvement.- 18. Immune dysfunction and catatonia.- 19. Suicide as a Systemic Disorder.- 20. RDoC and inflammation.- 21. The concept of auto-immune psychosis.- 22. Immunotherapy in the treatment of Psychosis.- 23. Immuno-Modulation of Resistant Depression.- 24. Diet, immune system and psychiatric disorders.- 25. Constituents of a Healthy Dietary Pattern.- 26. Exercise and Inflammation.