The Inflamed Mind

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