Cell-mediated immune responses have long protected us from potentially damaging external and internal agents which could render our body dysfunctional.

 

The immune system protects our bodies, but at what cost?!

Scientists and scholars, specifically neuroimmunologists, have zoomed in on the immune system as a potential cause for neurological and psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder, Parkinson’s disease, Sydenham’s Chorea, and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS). Please follow the links above to overviews of these disorders and empirical evidence of their ties to the immune system!

But first you might want to click here for an immune system introduction.