Neuro-immune interactions: The spectacular forest.

In this special issue of Neuron, we present a series of opinions and reviews on neuro-immune interactions. Like a forest ecosystem, an organism thrives or withers depending on the balance of its components.

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• 1 Recent insights into how profoundly the nervous and immune systems affect each other, bolstered by trans-disciplinary collaboration, have revolutionized both neuroscience and immunology.
• 2 Like a forest ecosystem, an organism thrives or withers depending on the balance of its components.
• 3 Highlighted in this special issue is a small sampling of the ever-growing list of diseases influenced by dysfunctional neuro-immune crosstalk, ranging from multiple sclerosis and brain cancer to long COVID and Alzheimer's.

Understanding this could lead to better treatments, improved diagnostics, or a deeper grasp of how the human body works — benefiting patient care globally.

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