Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But, treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward Bullmore's The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression.
In this game-changing book, University of Cambridge professor of psychiatry Edward Bullmore reveals the breakthrough new science on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain. He explains how and why we now know that mental disorders can have their root cause in the immune system, and outlines a future revolution in which treatments could be specifically targeted to break the vicious cycles of stress, inflammation, and depression.
The Inflamed Mind goes far beyond the clinic and the lab, representing a whole new way of looking at how mind, brain, and body all work together in a sometimes misguided effort to help us survive in a hostile world. It offers insights into how we could start getting to grips with depression and other mental disorders much more effectively in the future.
"Bullmore takes us through the exciting journey of immuno-psychiatry. He serves as an excellent guide... A tour de force not only because the book makes available to the layman what we have learned on the interactions between the immune system and the brain during the past two decades, but also because it puts it in perspective of the radical divide that unfortunately still separates psychiatry from other branches of medicine."
Robert Dantzer, BRAIN: A Journal of Neurology
"A rousing, straight-from-the shoulder call for a new approach to treating depression...Impressive and valuable... aimed at the general public, [The Inflamed Mind is] highly readable, and more than a little provocative."
Kirkus Reviews
"[A] targeted, readable primer... [and] a well-informed and cogently argued brief for funding and more investigation in the field."
