The Inflamed Mind - A Radical New Approach to Depression

Bullmore, Edward

ISBN 10: 1780723504 / ISBN 13: 9781780723501

Published by Short Books, London, 2018

About this Item

First Edition / Third Print (number line on copyright page 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). Hardback copy in burgundy cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 240pp. Diagrams within text. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (51/6).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Inflamed Mind - A Radical New Approach to Depression
• Publisher: Short Books, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780723504
• ISBN 13: 9781780723501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 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. In this game-changing book, University of Cambridge Professor 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 cycle 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 the story of Western medicine, how we have got it wrong as well as right in the past, and how we could start getting to grips with depression and other mental disorders much more effectively in the future.

About the Author

Edward Bullmore MB PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; then in psychiatry at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He moved to Cambridge in 1999 and is currently Co-Chair of Cambridge Neuroscience, Scientific Director of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and is one of the most highly cited scientists worldwide in neuroscience and psychiatry.