Neurobiology of the Immune System

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research.

Provides solid scientific basis to our understanding of the associations between the brain and the immune system the importance of these connectionsPresents coherent development from cellular and molecular neuroimmune communication to social and health considerations, including psychological interventionAddresses the theory that there is a neurobiology of the immune system

1. Neuroimmune relationships in perspective
2. Sympathetic nervous system interaction with the immune system
3. Mechanisms by which cytokines signal the brain. Neuropeptides: Modulators of immune response in health and disease
4. Brain-immune interactions in sleep. Neuroendocrinology of autoimmunity
5. Systemic stress-induced Th2 shift and its clinical implication
6. Neural control of salivary IgA secretion
7. Stress and secretory immunity
8. Cytokines and depression
9. Immunity and schizophrenia - autoimmunity, cytokines and immune responses
10. Cerebral lateralization and the immune system. Behavioural conditioning of the immune system. Psychological and neuroendocrine correlates of disease progression
11. The role of psychological intervention in modulating aspects of immune function in relation to health and well being