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- Editors:
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Edouard Kurstak
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Immunomodulators and Psychiatric Disorders
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- Heikki Katila, Ranan Rimón, Kari Cantell, Björn Appelberg, Heikki Nikkilä
Pages 191-196
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- Darrell G. Kirch, Richard Jed Wyatt
Pages 197-207
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- Eli Kritschmann, Daniel Becker, Susy Floru, Tamar Gotlieb-Stematsky
Pages 209-216
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- Ziad A. Kronfol, Madhavan P. N. Nair, Kavita Goel, Joann Goodson, Stanley A. Schwartz
Pages 217-221
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- Ziad Kronfol, J. Daniel House
Pages 223-227
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Viral Fatigue Syndrome and Antivirals
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Front Matter
Pages 229-229
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- Jay D. Amsterdam, Greg Maislin
Pages 257-268
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- Madhavan P. N. Nair, Stanley A. Schwartz, Ziad A. Kronfol, Raveendran Pottathil, Edgar P. Heimer, John F. Greden
Pages 269-273
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Animal Models in Virus Neuropathology
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Front Matter
Pages 275-275
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- Anne M. Deatly, Ashley T. Haase, Melvyn J. Ball
Pages 277-286
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- W. P. Paré, D. S. Robbins, J. L. Martin, P. M. Hoffman
Pages 287-293
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- D. Ben-Nathan, S. Lustig, G. Feuerstein
Pages 295-306
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Back Matter
Pages 307-311
About this book
The main purpose of the volume Psychiatry and Biological Factors is to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research linked essentially to virus infections, immunity functions, and mental diseases. In recent years substantial advances have been registered in the physiopathol ogy of mental and neurological disorders. As a result, partial control of certain psychoses, anxiety syndromes, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease is now possible. However, despite progress in biomedical research, numerous mental and neuro logical disorders afflict up to 15% of all individuals and little is known about the causes, prevention, and treatment of these diseases. Several epidemiological investigations demonstrated a high prevalence of functional psychoses and organic mental disorders, and recent data show that biological components appear as a major etiologic factor. In this respect it could be stressed that viral and immunologic hypotheses should be investigated seriously and systematically in relation to the mechanisms of several mental and neurologi cal diseases. Neuropsychiatric consequences of AIDS related to human immunodeficiency virus infection are now well documented. A variety of behavioral. symptoms and psychiatric syndromes with paranoid features are frequent concomitants of AIDS.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Edouard Kurstak