Perinatal Inflammation and Adult Psychopathology From Preclinical Models to Humans

Chapter 1. Perinatal psychiatry: ready for prime time?- Chapter 2. Pregnancy, stress response and neuroinflammation: effects on offspring and risk for psychiatric disorders.- Chapter 3. Epigenetic modifications of early life stress and adult life psychopathology.- Chapter 4. Perinatal HPA programming and adult psychopatholgoy.- Chapter 5. Intergeneration transmission of depression: focus on inflammation.- Chapter 6. Neonatal bacterial meningitis: mechanisms and implications for adult life psychopathology.- Chapter 7. Toxoplasmosis as risk factor for severe psychiatric disorders: clinical and pre-clinical evidence.- Chapter 8. A critical appraisal on the epidemiological evidence linking perinatal inflammation and risk of psychosis.- Chapter 9. Maternal Immune Activation as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia: Evidence from Preclinical and Clinical Studies.- Chapter 10. Influences of sex and age in MIA-induced behavioral and neurobiological alterations.- Chapter 11. MIA and autism.- Chapter12. Zika virus infection and neuropsychiatric complications.- Chapter 13. Placenta immunology: impact on fetus development.- Chapter 14. Placenta and cord blood as source of immune markers of offspring development and psychopathology.- Chapter 15. Cytokine model of cognitive function.

Antonio L. Teixeira (University of Texas, Houston, USA) is a physician-researcher who has made clinical and preclinical contributions to immunopsychiatry.

Bernhard T. Baune (University of Munster, Germany) is a physician-researcher who has made significant clinical and preclinical contributions to immunopsychiatry.

Danielle Macedo (Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil) has extensive expertise in  the field of preclinical studies in perinatal psychiatry.