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Halaris (psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience, Loyola U.) and Leonard (pharmacology, National U. of Ireland) bring together 14 articles in the area of psychoimmunology examining the role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists from the US, Europe, Asia, and Canada describe basic aspects of the immunology of neuroinflammation, the roles of stress and neurotoxins, inflammation and the role of glucocorticoids in depression, virus infection as a cause of inflammation in psychiatric disorders, essential fatty acids as potential anti-inflammatory agents in the treatment of affective disorders, and the brain-gut axis as a site for treating depression and stress-related disorders using probiotics. They also discuss anti-inflammatory drugs to treat schizophrenia, inflammation as the cause of metabolic syndrome in depression, the role of inflammation in the co-morbidity between cardiovascular pathology and depression, drug targets and new treatments for myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome, peripheral inflammation and cognitive aging, and inflammation in suicidality. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
