Contributors

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Our global community includes over 150 contributors, from more than 25 countries worldwide, concerned with advancing the health and wellbeing of people worldwide.

These colleagues have contributed with articles at BrainImmune. The list of our contributors is shown below, including links to selected posts and articles written by these authors.

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Contributors ASIA

India

Hannah Priyanka, Uday Pundir * aging lymphoid organs *
Srinivasan ThyagaRajan * aging lymphoid organs * neural meshwork lymphoid organs *

Japan

T Abo, T Kawamura, C Tomiyama-Miyaji , M Watanabe * nervous system & leukocyte traffic *
Akira Hashiramoto, Toshihiko Katafuchi * stress tuberculosis & Ishigami 1918 *

Saudi Arabia

Samer El-Kaissi * stress & autoimmunity *

Singapore           

Abeysinghe Tilak * stress cancer and the Chinese cultural revolution *

United Arab Emirates

Nicolas Turrin * brain-immune signaling *

Contributors – AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA 

Australia

Hooshang Lahooti * stress & autoimmunity *
Jack Wall * stress & autoimmunity * Caleb Parry & hyperthyroidism *

Contributors – EUROPE

Belgium

Julie Bakker, Elseline Hoekzema, Gabrielle Scantamburlo * oxytocin & Williams syndrome *
Vincent Geenen * oxytocin & Williams syndrome * thymus emergence * Bernard & physiology *

France

Arnaud Aubert * stress emotions cytokines *
Antoine Bertin * catecholamines and enterovirus 71 infectivity *
Didier Hober * catecholamines and enterovirus 71 infectivity *
Serge Nataf * Brain Superautoantigens *
Annabelle Réaux-Le Goazigo * Th17 and Tertiary Lymphoid Tissues *

Germany

Jan Born * T cells and sleep *
Hauke Günther * Hardwired antigen presenting cells *
Harald Engler * Cerebrospinal Fluid IL-6 and Depressive Symptoms in Humans
Tobias Esch * stress, proinflammation and cardiovascular diseases *
Tanja Lange * T cells and sleep *
Manfred Schedlowski * Cerebrospinal Fluid IL-6 and Depressive Symptoms in Humans *
Rainer Straub * evolutionary medicine & energy regulation * insulin resistance & brain*
Clemens Wülfing * Hardwired antigen presenting cells *

Greece

Valsamo Anagnostou * innervation thymus spleen *
George Chrousos * stress childhood asthma * body composition & chronic stress *
Ipatia Doussis-Anagnostopoulou * innervation thymus spleen *
Christos Kittas * innervation thymus spleen *
Christina Limniati * stress Th2 shift & thyroid autoimmunity *
Polyxeni Nicolaidou * stress childhood asthma *
Anastasios Papadimitriou * stress childhood asthma *
Kostas Priftis * stress childhood asthma *
Dina Tiniakos * innervation thymus spleen *
Agathocles Tsatsoulis * stress Th2 shift & thyroid autoimmunity *

Hungary

Cili Csolle, Beata Sperlagh * ATP at brain-immune interface *

Italy

Dario Boschiero * body composition and stress *
Luisa Bracci-Laudiero *  NGF and inflammation *
Rita Businaro * IL-17 therapeutic target * Eustachius discovery adrenal glands *
Brigitta Buttari * hierarchical cytokines framework *
Anna Cocca * sex hormones & autoimmunity *
Marco Cosentino * endogenous catecholamines immune cells *
Maurizio Cutolo * adrenal insufficiency in rheumatoid arthritis *
Paolo Falaschi * sex hormones & autoimmunity *
Natasa Kustrimovic * endogenous catecholamines immune cells *
Andrea La Sala * T helper cell & ATP *
Georges Maestroni * melatonin & Th17 * mainstream immunology and cultural separation *
Franca Marino * endogenous catecholamines immune cells *
Antonio Martocchia * sex hormones & autoimmunity *
Francesco Molinari * T helper cell & ATP *
Monica Pinoli * Selye and 80 years stress research *
Laura Pontecorvo * T helper cell & ATP *
Elisabetta Profumo * hierarchical cytokines framework *
Silvia Raja * sex hormones & autoimmunity *
Rachele Rigano * hierarchical cytokines framework *
Manuela Stefanelli * sex hormones & autoimmunity *
Angela Tagliani * Eustachius discovery adrenal glands *

Portugal

Daniela Brandão * Beta-adrenoceptors and tumor development *
Marisa Coelho * Beta-adrenoceptors and tumor development *
Laura Ribeiro * Beta-adrenoceptors and tumor development *
Cátia Soares-Silva * Beta-adrenoceptors and tumor development *

Netherlands

Marijke Faas, Paul de Vos, Barbro Melgert * sex hormones & immune regulation *

Romania

AG Ionescu, CT Streba, LAM Streba, I Rogoveanu, CC Vere * stress and hepatitis *

Slovakia

Richard Imrich * HPA axis & arthritis * adrenal insufficiency in rheumatoid arthritis *
Boris Mravec, Katarina Ondicova * vagus & immunity *

Spain

JR Caso * pro- anti-inflammatory effects stress * stress & ATP/P2X7R inflammasome *
B Garcia-Bueno, JC Leza, JLM Madrigal, BG Perez-Nievas * pro- anti-inflammatory effects stress *

Sweden

Bianka Karshikoff * role of inflammation in fatigue *
Julie Lasselin * role of inflammation in fatigue *
Tina Sundelin * role of inflammation in fatigue *

Switzerland

Monika Østensen * pregnancy and arthritis *
Maria Teresa Ferretti * brain glymphatic system: sleep & dementia *
Florencia Iulita * brain glymphatic system: sleep & dementia *

United Kingdom (UK)

Derek Burke * discovery interferon *
Ashley Grossman * discovery adrenaline *
David Jessop * discovery adrenaline * power positive stress *
John Lazarus * Caleb Parry & hyperthyroidism *
Graham Rook * depression & microbial environment *
Ewan St John Smith * acid sensing sensory neurons *

Contributors – NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

Argentina

María Laura Barreiro Arcos * Th17 Contributing to Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis *
Graciela Cremaschi * thyroid, immunity & stress * Th22 Cells & Graves’ disease *
Ana Maria Genaro * thyroid, immunity & stress *
Alicia Juana Klecha * Th17 Contributing to Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis *

Brazil

Gabriel Bassi * discovery brain lymphatic system * Th17–IL-17–IL-17R system & autism *
Luciana Mirotti, Momtchilo Russo * allergens and avoidance behavior *

Canada

Istvan Berczi * Selye & stress concept * vasopressin & immunity * Szentivanyi theory asthma *
Andrea Cervi, Alan Lomax, Mark Lukewich * neural-immune interactions GI tract *
Kalman Kovacs * vasopressin & immunity *

Mexico

Manuel Martínez-Lavín * dysautonomia & fibromyalgia *
Andres Quintanar-Stephano  vasopressin & immunity *
Cruz Reyes-Vazquez * interferon & CNS *

United States of America (USA)

Sourojit Bhowmick * sympathetic system and T reg cells *
Dimana Broadway * Hench & cortisone discovery * Metalnikov & immune conditioning *
Robert Cone * sympathetic system and T reg cells *
S Curtis * disease-environment interactions & Louis Pasteur *
Nachum Dafny * interferon & CNS *
Robert Dantzer * disease-environment interactions & Pasteur *
David Goldstein * Walter Cannon and homeostasis * adrenaline and the inner world *
Jiaying Gu * stress cancer and the Chinese cultural revolution *
Tracey Ignatowski * brain TNF homeostasis and pain *
Keith Kelley * disease-environment interactions & Pasteur *
Tomoshige Kino * glucocorticoid receptor *
Christopher Lowry * depression & microbial environment *
Jeannine Majde * mainstream immunology and cultural separation *
Alfonse T. Masi * adrenal insufficiency in rheumatoid arthritis *
Kirk Mantione * stress, proinflammation and cardiovascular diseases *
Jesse Munoz * tachykinins & bone marrow *
Charles Raison * depression & microbial environment *
Pranela Rameshwar * tachykinins & bone marrow *
Ronald Rubin * chemical neurotransmission history *
Robert Spengler * brain TNF homeostasis and pain *
George Stefano * stress, proinflammation and cardiovascular diseases *
Edward Tobinick *perispinal delivery CNS drugs*
Ronald Wilder * Hench & cortisone discovery *
Jerry Yu * neuroendocrine-immune interactions and lung *
Keith Zachman * norepinephrine and IL-12/IL-23 ratio *