Book
The inflamed mind : a radical new approach to depression
Record details
- ISBN: 1250318149
- ISBN: 9781250318145
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Physical Description:
xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Short Books"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Depression, Mental Etiology Depression, Mental Immunological aspects Depression, Mental Treatment Inflammation Immune system Neuroimmunology |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 616.8527 B937i 2019 (Text) | 33126022773760 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | 616.8527 B937i 2019 (Text) | 33126022773778 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/15/2024 |
Professor Edward Bullmore, MB, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. After working as a physician in London and at the University of Hong Kong, he trained as a psychiatrist at St George's Hospital and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley hospitals in London, and as a clinical scientist at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He has been a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge since 1999 and is head of the Department of Psychiatry and director of Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Since 2005, he has worked part-time at GlaxoSmithKline and is leading an academic-industrial partnership for the development of new anti-inflammatory drugs for depression. His other books include The Diagnosis of Psychosis and Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis.