WHAT'S THE POINT?  

Understanding the Immune System as a Key Component of Neuro-Developmental & Psychiatric Disorders is a MAJOR PARADIGM SHIFT.

Is it the final word --- probably not.  But we need to shed our antiquated understandings so we can get to something BETTER.

Brain-immune interactions in neuropsychiatric disorders:

Lessons from transcriptome studies for molecular targeting  (2021)

*South Korea​
Herein, the key transcriptomic techniques applied in investigating differentially expressed genes and pathways responsible for altered brain-immune interactions in neuropsychiatric disorders are discussed.

The application of transcriptomics that can aid in identifying molecular targets in various neuropsychiatric disorders is highlighted.
The many roads to mitochondrial dysfunction in ​neuroimmune and neuropsychiatric disorders (2015)

​*Wales and Australia
Immune Dysregulation in Bipolar Disorder:
The Role of IL-27 and EBI3 (2025)

*Researchers from Iran & the UK
Prospective association between maternal allostatic load during pregnancy and child mitochondrial content and bioenergetic capacity (2022)
Mitochondria: A Unifying Link for Psychiatric Illness
Psychological stress gets embedded in our system by altering metabolism.  (2024)
A multi-omic approach implicates novel protein dysregulation in post-traumatic stress disorder (2025)

*US
Mitochondrial dynamics and psychiatric disorders: The missing link (2024)

*Greece
Microglia as hunters or gatherers of brain synapses (2025)
​Role of the T-cell network in psychiatric disorders (2021)

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