Hachette India

The Inflamed Mind

Edward Bullmore

Depression will be the single biggest cause of disability worldwide, in the next 20 years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the realm of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still... until now.In this game-changing book, Professor Edward Bullmore reveals the breakthrough new science on the link between mental depression and physical inflammation. He explains how and why mental disorders can have their roots in the immune system and explores 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.

Edward Bullmore

Professor Edward Bullmore BA 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 the University of Hong Kong he trained as a psychiatrist at St George's Hospital the Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospital in London and as a clinical scientist at the Institute of Psychiatry King's College London. Since 1999 he has been a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge where he is now Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist and Director of Research and Development for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2005 he has also worked half-time for GlaxoSmithKline and is currently leading an academic-industrial consortium for the development of new anti-inflammatory drugs for depression. He is a world expert in neuroscience and mental health.