InhaltsangabeThe brain and the mind - can the immune system help?.- Influence of brain-derived cytokines on the immune response.- Physical stress/exercise and immune response.- Pain and immunosuppression.- The sympathetic-immune interface: role in immune regulation andpathology.- Functional role of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system ininflammatory pain.- Nerve injury and immune response.- Neuronal mechanisms of the recruitment of opioid peptide expressingimmune cells.- Peripheral analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of opioids -neuro-immune crosstalk.- The skin as a model for the immunodulatory effects ofcorticotropin-releasing hormone.- Adenosine - a peripheral neuronal modulator of pain and inflammation.