Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 Does Major Depression Exist? Or, Why the Diagnostic Rule Book Is (Mostly) Wrong 1
Chapter 2 Building a New Phenomenology of Depression Where Genes and the Environment Meet 37
Chapter 3 Environmental Adversity, Loss of Evolutionary Fitness, and the Development of MDD 58
Chapter 4 The Genetics of Major Depressive Disorder 121
Chapter 5 Depression and the Brain-Body Dance: Roles of Neuroendocrine, Autonomic, and Immune Pathways 173
Chapter 6 The Immune System: Relationships with the Stress System and Major Depression 231
Chapter 7 Neuroplastic, Inflammatory, and Cellular Changes in Depression 253
Chapter 8 Functional and Structural Brain Changes in Depression 315
Chapter 9 Changes in Neurotransmission and Subcellular Function in Depression, or, The Secret of the Shogun's Box 389
Chapter 10 Pathogen Host Defense in the Evolution of Depression and Its Risk Genes 452
Chapter 11 The Case of Mary 507
Chapter 12 The Case of Anna 525
Chapter 13 The Case of Thomas 557
Index 603