14th Annual Meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society

Abstract

The Association for Neurophyschopharmacology hosted a satellite meeting as part of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society. The meeting was entitled ‘Cytokines and Depression III: Identification and Treatment of Symptoms Associated with Inflammation in Diseases with Inflammation in Medically Ill Patients’ and was held in Bordeaux, France on 28 – 29 May, 2007. The meeting comprised ∼ 40 participants from many leading laboratories and hospitals from around the world looking to understand some of the clinical issues associated with depression and behavioural changes, with the aims of exploring better ways of clinical monitoring and marshalling drug discovery efforts from bespoke and alternate indications in providing new therapeutic approaches.

Keywords::

• clinical depression
• co-morbidites
• cytokines
• sickness behaviour