chapter 1 Behavioral Effects of Cytokines: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective -- chapter 2 Worried to Death? Stress, Worry, and Immune Dysregulation in Health and HIV -- chapter 3 Psychological Stress and Its Relationship to Cytokines and Inflammatory Diseases -- chapter 4 Role of Cytokines in Depression -- chapter 5 Loneliness, Dysphoria, Stress, and Immunity: A Role for Cytokines -- chapter 6 Stress, Cytokines, and Peripheral Analgesia -- chapter 7 Alexithymia, Stress, and Immunity -- chapter 8 Roles of Mu-Opioid Receptor and Endogenous Opiates in Stress-Induced Immunosuppression -- chapter 9 Stress, Opioid Peptides, and Immune Response -- chapter 10 Met-Enkephalin in Oxidative Stress -- chapter 11 Chronic Stress Induces Death of Lymphocytes -- chapter 12 Interleukin-10 and the Hypothalamic–Pituitary– Adrenal Axis -- chapter 13 Cytokines, Stress, and Depression -- chapter 14 Immunoconversion in Acute Phase Response -- chapter 15 Interferon in Health and Disease -- chapter 16 Neuropeptide Precursor Processing in Immunocytes: Involvement in Neuroimmune Communication -- chapter 17 Clinical Relevance of Opioid-Induced Immunosuppression: Are All Drugs Similar? -- chapter 18 Human Retroviruses and the Cytokine Network -- chapter 19 Psychiatric Toxicity of Interferon-a: A Model for Understanding the Etiology of Major Depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? -- chapter 20 Role of Genetic Predisposition, Cytokines, and Neuroendocrine Response in Development of Thyroid Autoimmunity -- chapter 21 Gender Differences, Stress, and Immunity*.