1. Behavioral Effects of Cytokines: A Psychiatrist's Perspective / Ziad Kronfol -- 2. Worried to Death? Stress, Worry, and Immune Dysregulation in Health and HIV -- 3. Psychological Stress and Its Relationship to Cytokines and Inflammatory Diseases / Rama Murali, Margaret D. Hanson, and Edith Chen -- 4. Role of Cytokines in Depression / Ghanshyam N. Pandey and Yogesh Dwivedi -- 5. Loneliness, Dysphoria, Stress, and Immunity: A Role for Cytokines / Louise C. Hawkley, Jos A. Bosch, Christopher G. Engeland, Phillip T. Marucha, and John T. Cacioppo -- 6. Stress, Cytokines, and Peripheral Analgesia / Peter John Cabot -- 7. Alexithymia, Stress, and Immunity / Olivier Guilbaud, Maurice Corcos, and Philippe Jeammet -- 8. Roles of Mu-Opioid Receptor and Endogenous Opiates in Stress-Induced Immunosuppression / Jennifer Kelschenbach, Horace H. Loh, and Sabita Roy -- 9. Stress, Opioid Peptides, and Immune Reponse / Javier Puente, Marion E. Wolf, M. Antonieta Valenzuela, and Aron D. Mosnaim -- 10. Met-Enkephalin in Oxidative Stress / Tihomir Balog, Sandra Sobocănec, Vis̆nja S̆verko, Helena Haberstock-Debić, and Tatjana Marotti -- 11. Chronic Stress Induces Death of Lymphocytes / Erwei Sun, Lixin Wei, Arthur I. Roberts, Catherine Liu, and Yufang Shi -- 12. Interleukin-10 and the Hypothalamic--Pituitary--Adrenal Axis / Eric M. Smith, Huolin Tu, and Thomas K. Hughes, Jr. -- 13. Cytokines, Stress, and Depression / Adrian J. Dunn -- 14. Immunoconversion in Acute Phase Response / Istvan Berczi, Andres Quintanar-Stephano, and Kalman Kovacs -- 15. Interferon in Health and Disease / Nachum Dafny, Pamela B. Yang, and Stanley A. Brod -- 16. Neuropeptide Precursor Processing in Immunocytes: Involvement in Neuroimmune Communication / Robert Day and Michel Salzet -- 17.Clinical Relevance of Opioid-Induced Immunosuppression: Are All Drugs Similar? / Paola Sacerdote, Sivia Franchi, and Cataldo Martucci -- 18. Human Retroviruses and the Cytokine Network / Massimo Alfano and Guido Poli -- 19. Psychiatric Toxicity of Interferon: A Model for Understanding the Etiology of Major Depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? -- 20. Role of Genetic Predisposition, Cytokines, and Neuroendocrine Response in Development of Thyroid Autoimmunity / Antonio Martocchia and Paolo Falaschi -- 21. Gender Differences, Stress, and Immunity / Nicholas P. Plotnikoff and Robert E. Faith