Neuroimmunity
Subtitle: a new science that will revolutionize how we keep our brains healthy and young
By: Michal Schwartz with Anat London ; with a foreword by Olle Lindvall
Contributors: London, Anat, author
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780300203479
Subjects: Brain; Immunology; Diseases; Neuroimmunology; Nervous system; Immunological aspects
Description: "Scientists, physicians, medical students, and all readers with an interest in brain function and its relationship to the immune system in health and disease will find this book a valuable resource. With general readers in mind, the authors provide a useful primer to explain scientific terms and concepts discussed in the book,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Olle Lindvall; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: List of Abbreviations; title: A new player in the body-mind connection : the immune system; title: Cognition and the aging brain : the immune cells of wisdom; title: Stress and depression; title: Of mice and superman : the immune pro-spinal cord therapy; title: A vaccination to prevent blindness; title: Alzheimer's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS); title: Males' and females' different immune systems; title: Epilogue; title: A neuroimmunology primer.