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.
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