The INFLAMED MIND : A radical new approach to depression /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bullmore, Edward T. (Author)
Format: Book
Published: New York Picador 2019
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • The workings of the immune system
  • Inflammation and infection
  • Location, location, location
  • Communication: the medium is the message
  • Rapid rebuttal and learning
  • Auto-immunity: the flip side
  • Hiding in plain sight
  • It's depressing being ill
  • The cogito, God, and the machine
  • A long shadow
  • Mrs P is not alone
  • A bona fide blockbuster
  • The Cartesian blind spot
  • Melancholia after Descartes
  • From black bile to MDD
  • A cross to bear
  • Super-shrink
  • Dancing in the sanatorium
  • The golden age
  • Farcical serotonin
  • Bereft of biomarkers
  • How?
  • Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence
  • A stubborn fact
  • Causes must come first
  • The Berlin wall in the brain
  • Inflamed brains
  • Why?
  • What could make you inflamed (and depressed)?
  • Flaming stressed
  • Causal chains and cycles
  • Ultimately, the answer must always be Darwin
  • A savannah survival story
  • So what?
  • Medical apartheid
  • Could it be different already?
  • Market failure
  • Beyond blockbusters: better but not bigger than Prozac
  • Alzheimer's disease and the yin and yang of microglia
  • Schizophrenia and auto-intoxication.