‘Brain-immune axis’ implicated in simultaneous inflammation and depression, mood disorders

Depression and inflammation may be intimately linked through connections between the brain and the immune system, according a speaker at the EULAR 2026 Congress.“I view the immune system as the sixth sense of the body,” said Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, RJ Fasenmyer chair of clinical immunology at Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology. “The