Inflammation is increasingly billed as the root cause of a dizzying range of psychiatric conditions, from depression to addiction, anxiety to schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder to autism. But what is behind the hype? Find out here. In fact, whilst inflammation is most familiar to us as part of the body’s normal immune response to a physical injury, infection or irritation, it does also lead to psychological changes that affect motivation, activity and arousal. Whil