This Love Your Brain Session by Monty Lyman, Ireland, was recorded on 22 September 2024 at the 37th ECNP Congress in Milan, Italy.
This talk discusses key themes from his Lyman's new book, The Immune Mind: The New Science of Health. Through remarkable patient stories and interviews with experts in the immune-mind connection, Dr Lyman explores the potential of immunological and metabolic treatments in psychiatry. From interviewing a young Californian woman who recovers from psychosis caused by her immune system to being injected with bacteria to induce the depressive state of 'sickness behaviour,' the talk humanises the complex field of immunopsychiatry.
The discussion emphasises that no mental health condition is purely mental, and no physical condition is purely physical. An integrated understanding of mind, body, and microbe is essential for helping those with chronic conditions that do not neatly fall into 'mental' or 'physical' categories.
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