This volume deals with the various interactions between the central nervous system and the immune system in inflammatory conditions. The emphasis is on the origin of pain and stress and their treatment. The book is divided into four parts: central nervous system and inflammation, stress and inflammation, sympathetic nervous system, and peripheral nervous system and inflammation.

Provides a new perspective on the interaction between the nervous and the immune systems International authorship presents an overview of the latest developments Particularly interesting contributions about endorphins and their potential application in the treatment of pain

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The brain and the mind can the immune system help?.- Influence of brain-derived cytokines on the immune response.- Physical stress/exercise and immune response.- Pain and immunosuppression.- The sympathetic-immune interface: role in immune regulation andpathology.- Functional role of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system ininflammatory pain.- Nerve injury and immune response.- Neuronal mechanisms of the recruitment of opioid peptide expressingimmune cells.- Peripheral analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of opioids neuro-immune crosstalk.- The skin as a model for the immunodulatory effects ofcorticotropin-releasing hormone.- Adenosine a peripheral neuronal modulator of pain and inflammation.