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Neuroimmunity : a new science that will revolutionize how we keep our brains healthy and young / Michal Schwartz with Anat London ; with a foreword by Olle Lindvall.

by Schwartz, Michal.

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Yale University Press, [2015]

Neuroimmunology.

Brain -- Immunology.

Brain -- Aging.

Nervous system -- Diseases -- Immunological aspects.

Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries.

9780300203479 (hc.)

xxix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-266) and index.

Foreword / by Olle Lindvall -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- A new player in the body-mind connection : the immune system -- Cognition and the aging brain : the immune cells of wisdom -- Stress and depression -- Of mice and superman : the immune pro-spinal cord therapy -- A vaccination to prevent blindness -- Alzheimer's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) -- Males' and females' different immune systems -- Epilogue -- A neuroimmunology primer.

In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, there have been revolutionary new understandings of brain health and repair. In this book Schwartz describes the discovery of connections between immune system and brain and the significance of those findings for future treatments of brain disorders and injuries, spinal cord injuries, glaucoma, depression, brain aging, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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