Infectious behavior : brain-immune connections in autism, schizophrenia, and depression / Paul H. Patterson.
"Scientists are uncovering evidence of the important avenues of communication between the brain and the immune system and their involvement in mental illness. ... The heart of this engaging book, accessible to nonscientists, concerns the involvement of the immune systems of the pregnant woman a...
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Table of Contents:
- Fever and madness
- Brain-immune connections, stress, and depression
- The battleground of the fetal-maternal environment
- Prenatal origins of adult health and disease
- Infections and behavior
- Animal models of autism, schizophrenia, and depression?
- Immune involvement in autism, schizophrenia and depression
- Pre- and postnatal vaccination : risks and benefits
- Reasons for optimism
- Perspectives.